26 November, 2019
Welcome to this month's edition of our shipping case digest, providing you with concise and useful summaries of recent legal decisions in the shipping market.
Addlesee -v- Dentons: Legal advice privilege and company dissolution
In this case, the Court of Appeal had to consider what happened to legal advice privilege attaching to communications between a company and its lawyers, once that company had been dissolved… read more
The "RUBICON VANTAGE": Chartering guarantees and their issuers
In this case the court considered whether a parent company was liable as guarantor for the liabilities of its subsidiary under a bareboat charter of a floating storage and offloading facility… read more
Natixis -v- Marex: logistics service providers and limitation of liability
This case has important implications for commodity financing, warehousing, logistics and more generally in relation to a service provider’s reliance upon limitation provisions… read more
See also
IMO 2020: guidelines for consistent implementation of the sulphur cap
Earlier in the year the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in its 74th session adopted a comprehensive set of guidance and guidelines to support the consistent implementation of the 0.50% limit on sulphur in ships’ fuel oil, which comes into force from 1 January 2020… read more
For further information, please contact:
Damien Laracy, Partner, Hill Dickinson Hong Kong
damien.laracy@hilldickinson.com
