News & Updates

Shipping companies trading to Nigeria need to be aware of an important developing situation.  A significant number of ship owners have received demands from the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service (“FIRS”) for payment of back-dated taxes...

Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC) has announced that Richard Murray is re-joining its London-based team as a Managing Associate.  The announcement coincides with the appointment of nine CJC senior associates to the newly created company role of managing...

Alex Hudson , Neil Jackson , Keeley Edmondson , Deven Choudhary and David Fittis from CJC’s  Newcastle   office joined forces with NorthStandard’s Wilf How, Claude Lattin, Vicky Turner and Dominika Cudak to take part...

Demurrage liquidates all damages suffered by owners as a result of charterers’ failure to complete cargo operations within laytime – for now at least. Neil Jackson provides the details. Please click  here  to access the full...

Campbell Johnston Clark recently acted for Charterers in the English High Court successfully bringing an appeal under s69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 against the award of an LMAA Tribunal concerning off-hire following the failure of a vessel’s cargo...

Following low uptake of the BIMCO CII Operations Clause, Ian Short , CJC Director, asks whether it is the time to “think outside the box” and challenge traditional shipping and legal concepts to marry increasing environmental concerns with...

Clear and present legal issues emerge for UK fisheries as two areas of law with sustainability at their core create a conflict for stakeholders in the marine space surrounding the United Kingdom. Please click  here  to access the full...

In Trafigura Pte Ltd v TKK Shipping Ltd, the High Court considered  the calculation of the limitation sum under Hague Visby Rules when both physical damage and economic loss have been incurred to the cargo. The Court declined to follow the previous...

Where a charterparty clause states that no deductions from hire can be made without the consent of Owners, can Charterers nevertheless withhold payment of hire if the Vessel may be off-hire at the instalment date, on the grounds that the non-payment of hire...

The ‘separability principle’ – whereby an arbitration agreement contained in a fixture recap may be treated as independent to the remainder of the charterparty – was considered by the Court of Appeal in its recent decision to set...