Judgment handed down in SY Roro 1 PTE Ltd & Anor v Onorato Armatori SRL & Ors [2024] EWHC 611 (Comm)
James Leabeater KC and Edward Jones have represented owners seeking redelivery of two ferries arising out of change of control terminations of bareboat charterparties. Having secured awards in an expedited arbitration before Christmas, they have now appeared in a related expedited Commercial Court trial, culminating in a judgment handed down on 21 March 2024 requiring […]
21st March 2024
DIFC Court of Appeal: Important New Jurisdiction Judgment
In September 2022 the DIFC Court held in Jones v Jones that it has an unfettered freestanding jurisdiction to grant injunctions, without any reference to jurisdictional gateways (see Laurence Page’s note). On 6 September 2023, a year later, the DIFC Court of Appeal has found that Jones v Jones was wrong. Injunctive relief can be […]
6th September 2023
LISW23 – Cargo claims in action: soybean claims under bills of lading and charterparties
There is no shortage of cargo claims arising out of the carriage of grain cargoes, particularly in relation to soybeans carried from South America to China. The temperamental chemical properties of this cargo combined with a typically long sea voyage with dramatic temperature changes means that there is a chance that, even if the cargo […]
24 members from 4 Pump Court have been commended in the Who’s Who Legal: UK Bar 2023 report across 9 practice areas
We are pleased to announce that 23 members from 4 Pump Court have been commended in the Who’s Who Legal: UK Bar 2023 report across 9 practice areas. Arbitration– Rachel Ansell KC and Nick Vineall KC Business crime defence– Nigel Tozzi KC Construction– Rachel Ansell KC, James Bowling, Sean Brannigan KC, Thomas Crangle, Simon Henderson, […]
14th July 2023
4 Pump Court recognised in The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa Guide 2023
15 members of Chambers have been recognised for their work in the Middle East region spanning across the areas of commercial and construction. For commercial, Laurence Page is ranked tier 1 and Gideon Shirazi is ranked tier 2. For construction, 4 Pump Court has again been ranked a tier 1 leading set. Legal 500 highlight […]
12th April 2023
Commercial Court clarifies requirements for appointing arbitrators in ARI v WXJ [2022] EWHC 1543 (Comm) – James...
In ARI v WXJ [2022] EWHC 1543 (Comm) Foxton J considered when an arbitrator is validly appointed under English arbitration law. James Leabeater KC and Gideon Shirazi acted for the party pseudonymised as WXJ. The facts of the case were that an LMAA arbitration clause required the arbitration respondent to appoint an arbitrator within a […]
25th July 2022
The “Tai Prize”: permission to appeal refused by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in The “Tai Prize”, so affirming the decision of the Court of Appeal ([2021] EWCA Civ 87; [2021] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 36). That decision, commented on more fully here, therefore stands as the leading authority on a number of important issues concerning inter alia the meaning of […]
25th April 2022
Tenke Fungurume Mining S.A. v Katanga Contracting Services S.A.S. [2021] EWHC 3301 (Comm): High Court upholds award of...
The recent decision of Mrs Justice Moulder DBE in a challenge to an arbitration award brought under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”) reinforces the reluctance of the English courts to intervene in arbitration appeals. Most importantly, the decision confirms the approach taken in Essar Oilfields Services Ltd v Norscot Rig […]
11th January 2022
New Commercial Court decision on recoverability of funding costs in arbitration ‘Tenke Fungurume Mining SA v...
James Leabeater KC appeared in Tenke Fungurume Mining SA v Katanga Contracting Services [2021] EWHC 3301 (Comm),in which the Court considered whether an arbitral tribunal could award funding costs; specifically, a fee payable under a loan advanced by a company associated with a shareholder to fund costs of the arbitration. Such a fee would not be […]
7th December 2021
London International Shipping Week 2021
London International Shipping Week 2021 is a week long global shipping and maritime event that is being held during the week of September 13-17, in person and virtually, attracting audiences from jurisdictions globally. LISW21 offers over 150 industry functions and unique networking opportunities for leaders across all sectors of the international shipping industry – regulators, charterers, […]
Assign of the times? JCT clause 7.2
TCC strikes out wrongly assigned claim Aviva Investors and others -v- Shepherd Construction Ltd [2021] EWHC 1921 (TCC) The TCC (Jefford J) has had to consider the longstanding but little used JCT provision permitting an employer to assign the right to bring proceedings in the employer’s name to a purchaser of the building. James Leabeater […]
9th July 2021
Rankings in The Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2021
4 Pump Court are delighted that Members of Chambers have been recognised for their commercial and construction work in the Middle East by the Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2021. Stephen Cogley KC has been included in the commercial rankings, whilst leading silks ranked in the construction guide include Sean Brannigan KC, Lord Marks KC, Duncan […]
19th April 2021
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