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SS Dunlossit – steaming out of the 19th century
Posted: 15/01/2025
This year marks the bicentennial anniversary of the founding of heritage maritime law firm Thomas Cooper in 1825. To celebrate this occasion, lawyers from Penningtons Manches Cooper will, for each month of 2025, be chronicling a different seminal case conducted by Thomas Cooper across its two centuries of English legal practice. The first......>>
The EU’s 15th package of sanctions – what has changed?
Posted: 10/01/2025
On 16 December 2024, the EU Council adopted a 15th package of sanctions against Russia. The 15th package modifies Council Regulation (EU) numbers 269/2014 and 833/2014 by introducing new restrictive measures on an additional 54 individuals and 30 entities, amending derogations under the main asset freeze related to Russia, and by......>>
Giant Ace in the Supreme Court – the Hague/Hague-Visby time-bar applies to all mis-delivery claims
Posted: 29/11/2024
On 13 November 2024, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Fimbank Plc v KCH Shipping Co Ltd, The Giant Ace [2024] UKSC 38; a case determining whether the one-year time-bar in the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules applies if the cargo is delivered ashore to the wrong party after it has been discharged from the ship......>>
Can a fanciful risk of prosecution for breach of international sanctions prevent the English court from exercising its discretion?
Posted: 26/11/2024
The Commercial Court has delivered a significant ruling in the case of O v C [2024] EWHC 2838 (Comm), addressing an arbitration claim pursuant to section 44 of the Arbitration Act 1996 concerning the sale of a naphtha cargo affected by US sanctions. The claim was brought with the permission of the arbitral tribunal. The judgment highlights the......>>
Penningtons Manches Cooper establishes a hub in the South of France
Posted: 19/11/2024
Leading UK law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper is delighted to announce its entry into the South of France as it sets up a hub in Antibes, enabling direct access to the high-growth Mediterranean yacht sector and wider maritime industries......>>

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