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• City Cruises PLC v Transport For London [2012] 1 Lloyd's Rep 471 15 May 2012

  Jonathan Chambers successfully defended Transport for London (TfL) (the owners of Westminster Bridge) in relation to claims advanced by City Cruises (the owners of the passenger catamaran “MILLENNIUM CITY”) arising from a collision between that vessel and the bridge on 25^th January 2008. As a consequence of the collision the vessel semi-sank and passengers had to be evacuated.

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• Metall Market OOO v. Vitorio Shipping Co. Ltd. (The Lehmann Timber) [2012] EWHC 844 (Comm) 09 May 2012

  Chirag Karia QC successfully appealed an arbitral award which had required his client cargo owners to pay the storage and other expenses incurred by the respondent shipowners in exercising a lien over the cargo for general average contribution.

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• Bikam OOD v. Adria Cable S.a.r.l. [2012] EWHC 621 (Comm) 08 May 2012

  Chirag Karia QC successfully secured the striking out of pre-contractual misrepresentation claims advanced by the buyer of a Bulgarian satellite television company against his seller clients.

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