Quadrant Chambers invites you to our Annual Piraeus Shipping Law Seminar, taking place on Thursday 22nd November at the Piraeus Marine Club in Greece. 

The Quadrant Chambers Shipping Law Seminar is now in its fifth year. In response to feedback at previous events, this year we will be showcasing our talented juniors. The seminar will comprise of two sessions of topical presentations on current legal issues facing the shipping market. 

For any further information, please email marketing@quadrantchambers.com.

Registration: 3.30pm
Seminar: 4pm
Reception: 6pm

Programme: 

Chair : Yash Kulkarni QC
 

Session One: 

Rock solid? A look at non oral modification and entire agreement clauses - Ruth Hosking explores the consequence of the Supreme Court's decision in Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd on NOM clauses and the potentially wider impact on entire agreement clauses and party autonomy.

Geographic deviation from the contract voyage, still a special case? - David Semark looks at the decision in Dera v Derya.

Delays in arrival at the loadport: who bears the risk? - Paul Toms considers the judgment of Popplewell J in the Pacific Voyager, an appeal from which is due to be heard by the Court of Appeal in October. In analysing the judgment, Paul will in particular address the significance of ETAs and laycans in identifying who bears the risk of delay in a vessel's approach voyage under a voyage charter.
 

Session Two: 

"Leave means leave" - Exiting contractual obligations post-Phones4U Ltd v EE Ltd - Paul Henton takes a look at the options for existing for exiting contractual obligations, whilst seeking to preserve benefits thereunder - such as the right to claim damages for repudiatory breach - in the light of the decision of Andrew Baker J in Phones4U Ltd v EE Ltd. 

Anti-suit injunctions - Koye Akoni on restraining a party from commencing or continuing proceedings in a non-EU court in support of an arbitration agreement.

The Baltic Strait: whose loss is it anyway? - Andrew Carruth considers the High Court's decision on which party suffers loss and recovering third party losses.