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News
- A new GENCON: transforming a standard charter for the modern world
- APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRESIDENT
- Brewer News
- By and large, the 1996 Arbitration Act has done a good job
- Centre’s anniversary link with Modern Maritime Law
- Contracts and courts: a trip around the world of arbitration enforcement (21.05.20)
- Cyber Fraud and Cyber Piracy Webinar – 24.05.21
- Decarbonisation & Shipping – 21.04.21
- Does the regulatory environment balance political and industry needs?
- Dr Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard on Legal Shipping Challenges: an interview with John Faraclas
- Dr Aleka Sheppard – How is maritime arbitration working in London – and how can it be made even better – LISW /LSLC Arbitration RoundTable Debate
- End of Summer Greek-themed Barbeque
- EU Commercial Maritime Law Conference at UCL
- From Titanic to Concordia
- How the lockdown has hit shipping and what’s being done about it (9.06.20)
- How will the Pandemic affect Good Faith? (16.09.20)
- Istanbul Joint Spring Conference
- Keep close tabs on your newbuildings if you want shipyards to remedy defects
- Launch Reception for the Young Maritime Professionals Association
- Lloyd’s Salvage Branch and the LOF – with its global footprint from the Philippines to Philadelphia – is set to stay afloat
- London remains the best place for maritime arbitration
- LSLC’s 20th Anniversary – Cadwallader Debate and Gala Dinner
- LSLC’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
- LSLC’s Chairman welcomes the appointment of new Council members
- Maritime Arbitration. Russia, Singapore, Dubai, India or Hong Kong? Take your pick
- New Directions for Marine Insurance. 6-7 May 2014, Fishmongers’s Hall, London
- New offices for LSLC
- Photos from Modern Maritime Law Launch even
- Piracy, Refugees, War Risks and Sanctions: The Impact on Maritime Trade
- Riding the storm
- RTI London work placement role
- Salvage Seminar
- Sharpening our focus on maritime business
- SHIPPING AND ENERGY: The Role of the Law
- Shipping Lectures
- The Lord Mustill inaugural lecture took place at the Middle Temple Hall
- The Rt Hon the Lord Mustill
- Webinars to the rescue: international audiences flock to Centre’s online service
- YMP Dinghy Sailing Event 21st April 2012
Events
- “Through a glass darkly….” Impacts of illegality on Enforcement of Arbitration awards
- 17 June: Rules for the Use of Force Mock Arbitration
- 2 Mar: Effective Mediation Advocacy Series
- 23 Feb: Effective Mediation Advocacy Series
- 28th April – Shipbuilding contracts and related ship finance issues
- A Joint LSLC and SCMA Hybrid event – Sanctions and Shipping: An Evolving Landscape
- A Mock Arbitration – Special event for London International Shipping Week
- A new GENCON: transforming a standard charter for the modern world
- A Round Table Arbitration Debate
- Admiralty Procedures
- AIDIM Conference – “Latest Challenges: War Risks and Sanctions”
- AIS/VDR Evidence Workshop
- All change? How international financial dispute resolution is being restructured
- Arbitration and Third Parties
- Arbitration round up – the Nigeria case, anti suits and stays
- Aspects of illegality/fraud and enforcement issues – This event is now postponed
- Baltic Accident
- Bills of Lading Developments
- Bills of Lading event
- BIMCO’s new IOCD clause – does it provide contractual immunity to future pandemics?
- Breakfast event: Trade dynamics: recent updates and practical insights in commodity law and practice
- Bribery Act
- Brokers
- Brookes Bell Mariteam Sailing Evenings (YMP members)
- Bulk Carrier Safety Issues
- Bulk Carriers – Topical Issues
- Bunkers
- Bunkers Quality Crunch
- Cadwallader Debate & Dinner
- Careers and Current Trends in Shipping – YMP Student event
- Cargo Claims and Bills of Lading
- Cargo Claims and Cargo Disputes; Current Issues
- Cargo Insurance Developments & International Trade Issues
- Cargo stowage and safety issues: a case of shifting responsibility for shifting cargo?
- Charterparties – the Astra and the Aquafaith
- Christmas 2011
- Claim Trends across the UK Club in 2015
- Classification Societies regulatory regime and current issues on liability
- CMI – IWG on Liability for Wrongful Arrest of Ships
- Collisions! What next?
- Commodities Fraud: How reliable is the victim’s recourse under their security and insurance arrangements
- Competition Law and the Maritime Sector
- Constructive Total Loss & “The Renos”: Where next?
- Contract Interpretation
- Contracting out of corruption – the BIMCO Anti-Corruption Clause under the spotlight
- Corporate Manslaughter and Personal Injury in the Maritime Context
- Course on Effective Mediation Advocacy
- Court powers exercisable in support of arbitral proceedings – delving into the Section 44 toolbox
- Credit crunch, Quality crunch(?) and bunkers suppliers
- Crossing and head on rules – problems and uncertainties
- Current Issues in Arbitration
- Current issues in Salvage and General Average
- Current issues in the law of charterparties
- Current issues in the law of charterparties
- Current Offshore and Newbuilding Disputes
- Damages – Contemporary Issues and legal developments
- Damages Update
- Damages update
- Dangerous & Difficult Cargoes
- Demystifying salvage – changing perceptions in a changing world
- Derivatives and international trade
- Developments in Protective Procedural Measures
- Digitalisation of International Trade – an LSLC Hybrid event
- Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea
- Dry Bulk Cargo Issues
- Effective Dispute Resolution in the Emerging Markets
- Electronic Transport Records – How secure are they in shipping transactions?
- End of Summer Greek-themed Barbeque
- Enforcement of Letters of Indemnity, Misdelivery and the Post-Discharge Application of the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules
- Enforcement of Letters of Indemnity, Misdelivery and the post-discharge application of the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules
- Fraudulent Presentation of Shipping Documents under Letters of Credit – how to square the circle
- Freezers, asset enforcement, and committal applications – A Workshop
- FROM TITANIC TO CONCORDIA: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF PASSENGER SHIPS
- Funding litigation
- Hedging and Damages – Legal and Industry Implications of Rhine Shipping v Vitol
- Hot Shipping Cases In 2015 – Lessons Learned For 2016 & Beyond
- How Does Arbitration Support London?
- Impact of Rome I and II
- Incoterms 2010 and Shipping Practice
- Injunctive Relief: Pointers and Pitfalls
- Insolvency Law
- Insurance and exclusions in offshore projects – topical issues
- Insurance Law Developments
- Insurance Law Developments
- Insurance Law Reform: Utmost Good Faith and the Law Commission’s proposals
- International Commercial Fraud
- International Dispute Resolution Week Event
- International Trade Update on Damages for Breach/Repudiation
- Interpretation of Contracts
- Issues on Freight Futures
- Istanbul Spring Conference
- Jackson – A Brave New World
- KNOW YOUR LIMITS: Who, what, where?
- Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown unknowns
- Kompetenz-Kompetenz in Arbitration
- Launch Reception for the LSLC Young Maritime Professionals Assoc
- Lecture on maritime institutions
- Liens Here and Across the Atlantic and their contrasting effect on claims arising from the OW Bunker
- Limitation Claims following on from the MSC Flaminia: what is the direction of travel in the English Court?
- Limitation of Liability Revisited
- LISW event – Managing Arbitration Effectively – Arbitration Workshop
- LNG – the supply and shipping of natural gas in a (more) liquid market
- London Arbitration with Chinese Parties – Keeping A Level Playing Field
- LSLC – YMP and 4 PUMP COURT Spring Shipping Law Seminar
- LSLC – YMP and Wadkins & Associates Annual Summer Boat Party
- LSLC – YMP Christmas Party
- LSLC / 36 Stone Webinar – Sanctions, Frustration and Force Majeure
- LSLC / LMAA Hybrid event -Offshore Energy: Contracts and disputes in the maritime environment
- LSLC /BIMCO webinar – Decarbonisation & Shipping
- LSLC event – Recent Developments in the Law of Charterparties
- LSLC Hybrid event – The Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on the Arbitration Act 1996
- LSLC Hybrid event on Jurisdiction agreements, anti-suit injunctions and Norwich Pharmacal orders post-Brexit
- LSLC Webinar – Admiralty Alerts
- LSLC Webinar – Are electronic Bills of Lading the solution?
- LSLC webinar – Containership Casualties
- LSLC Webinar – Cyber Fraud and Cyber Piracy
- LSLC Webinar – Decarbonisation & Shipping – decarbonisation in practice: contracts
- LSLC WEBINAR – THE CMA CGM LIBRA
- LSLC Webinar – The Eternal Bliss
- LSLC Webinar – The impact of Covid-19 on charterparties
- LSLC Webinar: Negotiating contracts: “subject to” conditions and battles of the forms
- LSLC-YMP event: Securing Claims and enforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards in Latin Amereica
- LSLC-YMP – Maritime Litigation in England – The View From The Bench
- LSLC-YMP / 4 Pump Court webinar – Soybean cargo claims: common themes and key takeaways from recent decisions
- LSLC-YMP / 4 Pump Court’s Autumn Shipping Law Seminar
- LSLC-YMP /4 Pump Court event – Shipping Industry Forum
- LSLC-YMP & 4 Pump Court Webinar – Shipping Industry Forum 2020
- LSLC-YMP & Wadkins Associates Annual Summer Boat Party
- LSLC-YMP & Wadkins Associates Annual Summer Boat Party
- LSLC-YMP and 20 Essex Street – Sunshine & Shipping Seminar
- LSLC-YMP and AIDIM Annual Seminar – Running aground: complexities and challenges
- LSLC-YMP and TMC Seminar – Made Simple Series II
- LSLC-YMP and Wadkins Associates Christmas Party
- LSLC-YMP CAREERS EVENT – SHIPPING CAREERS AND CURRENT TRENDS IN SHIPPING
- LSLC-YMP Christmas Party
- LSLC-YMP event – Boxing clever – how to work better together in managing a container ship casualty
- LSLC-YMP event – Sanctions and Tariffs: latest developments and their impact on Shipping and Trade
- LSLC-YMP event – Trends in Shipping Finance – The Role of Private Equity
- LSLC-YMP event: NAVIGATING THE LATEST CHANGES TO THE SHIPPING AND COMMODITIES LANDSCAPE
- LSLC-YMP event: Poker FM – A powerful tool in a volatile market?
- LSLC-YMP event: SHIPBUILDING AND MARINE ENGINEERING
- LSLC-YMP Giving your client the best chance of Winning its Maritime Arbitration
- LSLC-YMP SOUTHAMPTON PORT VISIT
- LSLC-YMP Webinar – UKRAINE UPDATE
- LSLC-YMP Webinar -International Conventions on Oil Pollution and Its Applicability in Recent Cases
- LSLC-YMP Webinar: Expert Evidence in Maritime Disputes
- LSLC-YMP’s 10th Anniversary Garden Party
- LSLC-YMP’s Breakfast Webinar- Wrecking Havoc …….
- LSLC-YMP’s Christmas Party
- LSLC-YMP/Thomas Miller Annual Seminar – Trends in Maritime Claims
- LSLC’s 30 Anniversary special celebration
- LSLC’s Hybrid Event – The Polar [2021]
- LSLC’s Third Arbitration Round Table Debate – Part 1
- LSLC’s Third Arbitration Round Table Debate – Part 2
- LSLC/BIMCO event – SHIPSALE 22
- LSLC/SCMA : Reimagining Bills of Lading for the 21st Century!
- LSLC/YMP – 20 Essex Street Christmas Party
- LSLC/YMP – Pieces of the puzzle: the overlap of charterparties and sale contracts
- LSLC/YMP – Unmanned Vehicles, Liability and Insurance
- LSLC/YMP & 20 Essex Street event – Sunshine & Shipping
- LSLC/YMP & 20 Essex Street Pub Quiz
- LSLC/YMP & 20 Essex Street Pub Quiz
- LSLC/YMP & 4 Pump Court’s Shipping Industry Forum
- LSLC/YMP & Thomas Miller event – Trends in Maritime Claims
- LSLC/YMP and AIDIM Seminar on Ship Arrest and Insolvency
- LSLC/YMP and Hill Dickinson Marine Insurance Law event
- LSLC/YMP and Ince & Co.‘s Summer Treasure Hunt
- LSLC/YMP Bitesize Case Updates Webinar
- LSLC/YMP event – Geographic Deviation and Unseaworthiness
- LSLC/YMP event – Trends in Maritime Claims
- LSLC/YMP Webinar – Impact of geopolitical changes (Brexit / Ukraine Conflict) on attachment and enforcement in Switzerland
- LSLC/YMP Webinar – International Trade & Bills of Lading: Recent Developments
- LSLC/YMP Webinar – Shipping: Common Issues in Contract and Insolvency
- LSLC/YMP Webinar Current Challenges and Issues emerging from the lockdown
- LSLC/YMP Webinar event – Legal Horizons in Sustainable Shipping: From Green Finance to Regulation
- LSLC/YMP Webinar Event -Tasting notes: shipping 101 and artisan chocolate
- MARLAW 2009
- Mediation advocacy training awareness – Briefing session
- Meet the Arbitrators – An LSLC/YMP event jointly held with the LMAA
- Meet the Shipwrights
- Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention
- Navigating Sustainability from Regulation to Dispute Resolution
- Navigating The Latest Changes To The Shipping And Commodities Landscape – An LSLC-YMP event
- New Trends in Piercing the Corporate Veil – (The conservative versus the liberal approaches)
- NYPE 2015
- Off-spec bunker claims – An LSLC-YMP Hybrid event
- Offshore Contracts 1
- Offshore Issues II – Liability Insurance for offshore vessels
- On Demand Guarantees and Letters of Credit
- Perspectives from the Commercial Court
- Piracy – BIMCO’s GUARDCON and the Rules for the Use of Force (RUF)
- Piracy II
- Piracy Up-date
- Piracy. A modern day scourge
- Professional Indemnity Insurance in the Maritime Industry
- Recent cases in the law of marine insurance
- Recent Decisions on War Risks Coverage in Marine Insurance:The B Atlantic, Brillante Virtuoso, and McKeever v Northernreef
- Recent developments – Rule B relief, freezing injunctions and anti-suit relief
- Recent Developments in Marine Insurance: Jurisdiction, Limitation and Causation Issues
- Recent Supreme Court Decisions in OW Bunkers and The Global Santosh
- Repudiation of Contract – Assessment of Damages
- Reviewing Clauses in Tanker charterparties
- Risk Management for Shipping, Ports & Terminals- Workshop (with simulation)
- Risks in and Rewards of Arbitrating
- RTI v Mur and Force Majeure clauses
- Rules for the Use of Force Mock Trial
- Saleform Issues
- Sanctions
- Sanctions and Shipping – Where are we now?
- Sanctions: Living alongside sanctions – a historic year in review and where do we go from here
- Security for and enforcement of Claims
- Ship Finance, Guarantees and Remedies on Termination of shipbldg contracts
- Ship-to-Ship Transfers
- Shipbuilding Contracts
- Shipowners’ right to limit liability under international conventions: Ground breaking agreement reached at the IMO on the interpretation of the test for breaking shipowners’ right to limit liability
- Shipping and Energy seminar
- Shipping loans and mortgages: enforcement issues
- Speed and Consumption Issues
- Tanker Charterparty Clauses Part II
- Terminating shipbuilding contracts
- The 11th Cadwallader Debate and Reception.
- THE ADMIRALTY COURT: The New Rules in CPR 61 & Recent Decisions of the Court
- The Arbitration Act 1996 – 20 years on – Views from the Bar
- The beginning of the end, or just the end of the beginning
- The Brussels 1 Regulation – Reform
- The effect of the credit crisis upon maritime contracts
- The Electronic Trade Documents Act: possession, reliability and international legal harmony
- The Enforcement of London Arbitration Agreements
- The EU Horizon Project and the ISM
- The Final Report on proposed Reform of the Arbitration Act – RoundTable Discussion update
- The Front Comor
- The Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz-Legal Lessons from the Past
- The Hague-Visby Rules at 50
- The HNS Convention
- The Interaction Between Shipping and Insolvency
- The Jackson Review Revisited tbc
- The Jackson Revue
- The Lord Mustill Inaugural Lecture
- The New Anatomy of Maritime Legal Services: collaboration, innovation and the “more for less” conundrum
- The pressing risk of piracy: addressing the consequences
- The Robot Over Your Shoulder
- The Rotterdam Rules
- The Sea Angel
- The Seafarer: Crew Fatigue & Human Rights
- The Tai Prize
- Time Charter Indemnities: Is the Athanasia Comninos good law?
- Time Charters – Hot Topics
- Time Charters in Troubled Waters
- Two years on from the Credit Crunch
- Unsafe port and berth obligations
- Unsafe Ports
- Update on Arbitration – focus on Funding Issues and Apparent Bias
- Webinar – Anti-Suit Injunctions in Shipping Cases
- Webinar – Data at a Distance: The Art of Remote Inspections
- Webinar – Does the post-Halliburton landscape provide “closure on disclosure” for appointments in London maritime arbitration?
- Webinar – Enforcement of arbitration awards in different jurisdictions
- Webinar – Practical & legal issues in shipbuilding – the SAJ Form
- Webinar – Practical & legal issues in shipping: MARPOL Annex VI – Implementation of the Sulphur Cap
- Webinar – The Good Faith Debate: English Law and the International Tide
- Webinar: Sanctions at a crossroads? What next for the maritime community?
- What makes a good arbitration?
- What now after the decision in West Tankers?
- YMP – Stone Chambers Quiz Night
- YMP Christmas Party
- YMP Event – Anual Summer Thames Cruise Party
- YMP event – Introduction to Mediation Workshop
- YMP event – Made Simple ……
- YMP Event – Maritime Claims in the Arabian Gulf –
- YMP event – Shipping Law Forum at Essex Court Chambers
- YMP Event – Southampton Port Visit
- YMP event – Tour of LLoyd’s of London*
- YMP event – Visit to Lloyd’s Register
- YMP event – What’s left of the anti-suit injunction?
- YMP Event Mediation of Maritime Disputes: An Introduction to ADR
- YMP Event: Introduction and Current Trends in Shipbuilding.
- YMP event: Shipping Arbitration Forum at Essex Court Chambers
- YMP event: Talk on Maritime Insitutions
- YMP Summer River Cruise 2014
- YMP Tour of Lloyd’s
- YMP-Stone Chambers Annual Quiz Night event
- YMP’s Annual Summer Thames Boat Party
- YMP/Brookes Bell Mariteam Sailing Evening
- Young Maritime Professionals /Stone Chambers Quiz Night
- Young Maritime Professionals Association RTI Reception