Past events

Maritime and Commercial Law Rounds — Past Topics and Presenters

We hold regular “Rounds” for the discussion of recent developments in maritime and commercial law. These are usually held online.

7 March 2025

• 'Seeking Substantial Justice in The Sea Justice [2024] SGCA 32' (Navid Hatamipour, National University of Singapore)
• 'The Seafarers Wages Act and the Race to the Bottom' (Sandhya Drew and Marcus Soanes, City St George’s, UoL).

13 December 2024

• The meaning of 'Commercial Purposes' in the context of State Immunity, and the UKSC's judgment in Argentum Exploration v The Silver [2024] UKSC 16 (Katherine Reece Thomas, City St George’s, UoL)
• Aspects of Green Shipping Contracts and the employment of contracting practices to further the maritime sector's decarbonisation objectives (Dr Pia Rebelo, City St George’s, UoL)

15 December 2023

• Book Launch Event: Shengnan Jia and Lijun Zhao (eds), Commercial and Maritime Law in China and Europe (Routledge 2022).
• (Presentations by many of the book’s contributors.)

3 November 2023

• 'The MLC, the welfare of seafarers and AI' (Dr Lijun Zhao, City, UoL)
• 'Defining intentional deviation in MASS: a charterparty perspective' (Raphael Esu, City, UoL)
• 'The MSC Flaminia (No 2)' (Jeffrey Thomson, City, UoL)

24 February 2023

• 'Marine Insurance and Underlying Transactions' (Dr Meixian Song, University of Reading)
• 'The Legal Nature of Applicability Provisions in International Uniform Law' (Dr Soterios Loizou, KCL)
• 'Reconceptualising the Channelling of Liability in Emerging Technologies in Shipping' (Mustafa Yilmaz, City, UoL)

9 December 2022

• Sustainability in shipping, the Blue Visby solution and the Poseidon Principles (Professor Andrea Lista, University of Southampton)
• The Platformisation initiative in ship recycling (Dr Abhinayan Basu Bal, University of Gothenburg)
• A right to indemnity under hull insurance for environmentally sustainable repairs? (Dr Pia Rebelo and Jeffrey Thomson, City, UoL)

4 November 2022

• Contractual subjects in charterparty negotiations: when is a binding contract concluded? (Filip Saranovic, Queen Mary UoL)
• The US Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2022 and reforms to US maritime legislation in relation to supply chains, detention and demurrage charges, and the powers of the Federal Maritime Commission (Marcus Soames, City, UoL)
• The Rugby Football Union v Clark Smith Partnership Ltd [2022] EWHC 956 (TCC) and parties to contracts of insurance (Jeffrey Thomson, City, UoL)

1 July 2022

• What does The C Challenger Appeal Decision mean for the interpretation of Climate Clauses? SK Shipping Europe PLC v (3) Capital VLCC 3 Corp (5) Capital Maritime and Trading Corp (The C Challenger) [2022] EWCA Civ 231 (Pia Rebelo, City, UoL)
• Unicredit Bank AG v Euronav NV [2022] EWHC 957 (Comm) on financed cargo misdelivery and bills of lading (Federico Franchina, University of Messina)
• The Law Commission’s recommendations in relation to Electronic Trade Documents (Miriam Goldby, Queen Mary UoL).

8 April 2022

• Broad Idea International Ltd v Convoy Collateral Ltd [2021] UKPC 24 and freezing injunctions (Stuart Sime)
• Uraltransmash v PESA (Case No A60-36897/2020), Russian parties subject to sanctions, and the availability of anti-arbitration injunctions in Russia (Daria Efimova)
• The recent P&O Ferries mass termination of crew/employees (Sandhya Drew and Marcus Soanes)

11 February 2022

• The Eternal Bliss [2021] EWCA Civ 1712 and demurrage (Jason Chuah)
• "Who is responsible vs who is at fault: A teaser on how autonomous vessels could obfuscate cargo responsibilities” (Raphael Esu)
• The Stema Barge II [2021] EWCA Civ 1880 and global limitation of liability (Jeffrey Thomson)