News & Updates

Russell Harling, James Mackay, Kate Law and Andrew Gray from CJC attended the Greek-Irish Society St Patrick’s Day Ball at the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens on Saturday 16th March. This was a fantastic evening, which has become something of an event...

Issue 15, offering practical insight into issues that our lawyers have been dealing with, including BIMCO’s CII Time Charter Clause, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and the consequences for shipping of events in the Red Sea and Ukraine. The...

Ship CII ratings will be released imminently for their performance in 2023.  However, with the low take-up of Bimco’s CII Time Charter Clause and with many in the industry questioning whether CII is truly fit for purpose, Ian Short examines...

The European Union’s Emission’s Trading Scheme has been expanded to include the maritime sector and it is now in force. Director Ian Short and Associate Ahmed Hassan provide a review on what this means for the sector and in...

In Mercuria Energy Trading Pte v Raphael Cotoner Investments Limited, the High Court handed down a decision that revisits the question of when an owner can rely upon the Hague / Hague-Rules exception from liability for an “ Act, neglect, or default of...

In London Arbitration 14/23 the Tribunal heard that a vessel's grounding, without any causative negligence, resulted in the Charterers breaching their warranty that in the ports to which the ship would be ordered, the vessel would always remain afloat. ...

A recent High Court judgment rejected shipowners JOL and JWL’s attempt to circumvent an arbitration tribunal by filing an injunction for urgent relief. Alex Hudson , Director, and William Reed , Trainee Solicitor, summarise JOL &...

The Ukrainian war, and attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea open a new chapter for underwriters, and expose the escalating risks brought by shifting distribution of global power, writes Richard Murray . In his annual Royal United Services...

As courts of various jurisdictions have found over the last 150 years or so, questions that are easy to ask such as “what is the definition of a ‘ship’?” are not always so easy to answer. Following the conversion of a dumb barge...

General average was declared after Star Antares made contact with an unknown submerged object and was damaged. However, a dispute subsequently arose as to which version of the York Antwerp Rules governed the rights and obligations of the parties, and in...