Shipping Bulletin - July 2011

Covered in this issue:

BIMCO BIMCO publishes Wreckhire 2010 Civil Procedure High Court grants relief from sanctions where the deadline for service of a witness statement was a bank holiday, and the statement was served late Contract Commercial Court holds that a right of first refusal constitutes a right to receive a contractual offer on terms which the party who has granted that right is prepared to accept High Court holds that a party's duty to use "all reasonable endeavours" is not limited by that party's commercial interests International Trade Court rules on a trade supplier's entitlement to sums claimed from an insurance company under three credit supplier guarantees Jurisdiction Court of Appeal considers the issue of which court is first seised under the Brussels Regulation, when a first action which is not related to a second action for the purposes of the Regulation is amended so as to become related Legal Profession Court finds that a conditional fee agreement is unenforceable where its effect has not been properly explained Paris Mou Committee approves 2010 inspection results and adopts new performance lists Privilege Court of Appeal holds that privilege in advice received at a meeting with legal advisers has been waived when a witness statement refers to the nature of that advice Sale of Goods European Court of Justice considers the meaning of "place...