Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

In AspenUnderwriting Ltd and Others v Credit Europe Bank NV [2020] UKSC 11, theSupreme Court clarified the application of the conditional benefit doctrine to exclusivejurisdiction clauses.

The signal case so far this spring is Alize 1954 and Another v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG and Others (The CMA CGM Libra) [2020] EWCA Civ 293, wherein the Court of Appeal considered the scope of the definition of unseaworthiness. Did it encompass a defective passage plan? The Court of Appeal held that it did.

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