“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
What is carriage of goods by sea law? It is about the law that underlines the transportation of goods (for the most part by sea). It takes what you have already learned in international shipping and tells you the law that is behind it all. It speaks to the rights, obligations and liabilities of all the parties involved in the shipping
To understood the Hanjin bankruptcy is to understand the current state of the global shipping industry. And if Hanjin is any thing to go by, and it is, the picture isn’t good. However, it is not all doom and gloom as the shipping industry is in the process of reorganizing itself and of this Hanjin saga is simply a part.
Will giving Hanjin more time to develop and submit a rehabilitation plan to the court give it the ‘breathing space’ needed to come up with a viable plan to say afloat? Or is it just delaying the inevitable? I guess we will have to wait unit December to find out.
Commercial Law International would like to announce a lecture by Dr. Jason Chuah of the University of Westminster entitled: Doctrinal Integrity in Private Maritime Law and Legal Transplants. Dr. Chauh is Head of the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster. He is currently Chair of the London Universities Maritime Law and Policy Research Group. He is
By Charles Wanguhu The doctrine of Forum non conveniens offers a court the opportunity to decline, in the interest of justice, to exercise jurisdiction, where the suit is between aliens or nonresidents, or where for kindred reasons the litigation can more appropriately be conducted in a foreign tribunal. Placing the above in context, what is Kenya’s interest in a British