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Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

Contact

Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).

Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.

For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, Katie-Beth Jones, and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our practice management team in London.

London

20 Essex Street
London
WC2R 3AL

enquiries@twentyessex.com
t: +44 20 7842 1200

Singapore

28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120

singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230

03/04/2024

Shifting currents: A breakfast seminar on the latest in shipping caselaw, May 2024

Start your day with expert insights on the latest caselaw and developments in the law of shipping and international trade, from Twenty Essex’s outstanding team, served up alongside an excellent hot and cold breakfast.


Modern maritime law is multifaceted and ever-changing. Twenty Essex has acted in many of the industry’s most high-profile and commercially important cases, covering all aspects of wet and dry shipping disputes, as well as its myriad intersections with arbitration and ADR, insurance, conflicts of law, wider commercial litigation and public international law. Together, our barristers offer an unparalleled breadth of perspective on this complex world.

Twenty Essex is the ‘go-to’ chambers in London for maritime disputes — Legal 500, 2024


Hear our panel’s insights on contemporary shipping law topics, including:

  • Deemed satisfaction of conditions precedent – the other principle in Mackay v Dick. A discussion of the Dias J’s decision in King Crude Carriers v Ridgebury [2023].
  • The effect that different “subjects” provisions have upon whether binding contracts are entered into, by reference to The Leonidas [2021] 1 All ER (Comm)1157, The Newcastle Express [2023] 3 All E.R. 580 in the Court of Appeal, and the recent decision in The Aquafreedom [2024] EWHC 255 (Comm).
  • Maersk v Almar-Hum [2024] EWHC 993 (Comm) – potentially the first reported instance where a positive finding of enforceability was actually reached (cf. The Mahkutai [1996] A.C. 650). Discussed in reference to Himalaya clauses and the enforcement of exclusive jurisdiction/arbitration clauses, as well as the (lack of) effect of foreign judgments obtained in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.

 

This month, planned speakers are:

Please note that this event is invitation only. Contact our shipping practice team if you would like to come along.

Event details

08:30–10:30am, Tuesday 14 May
Breakfast from 08:30, talks 09:00–10:00

Join us in the Lower Court at No 23 Essex Street, our smart new social and seminar space.
Twenty Essex
23 Essex Street
WC2R 3AL
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