2 March 2021 Webinar The Box We bring you a series of bitesize webinars for insurance brokers, intermediaries and their insurers. Bookmark this page 1 min read
18 February 2021 Insight Can GAFTA terms be implied to provide a party with the bite of arbitration? Lessons learned from Black Sea Commodities Ltd v Lemarc Agromond PTE Ltd. In a rare case of a party successfully challenging an arbitration award under s67 Arbitration Act 1996, the English High Court considered the question of whether a GAFTA arbitration clause can be implied into an agreement between parties by market practice and custom. Bookmark this page 3 min read
1 February 2021 Insight Coronavirus The Business Interruption Insurance test case On 15 January 2021, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark judgment in the Business Interruption test case, which will have an immediate impact on many SME businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic along with longer term effects for the analysis of insurance claims for years to come. We consider the key take away points. Bookmark this page 8 min read
29 December 2020 Insight Buying time – when can parties agree to delay? Before the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules, the courts were not perceptibly concerned about delay agreed to by the parties. Bookmark this page 7 min read