Talks

For details of talks and seminars currently offered by members of 7KBW please contact Emily Morris, at emorris@7kbw.co.uk.

INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

• Changes to the 1996 Arbitration Act
• Jurisdiction and enforcement
• The modern day arbitrator – expectations and irritations
• Security for costs in arbitration (in the context of third party funding)
• Disclosure by an arbitrator – the effect of Halliburton v Chubb

GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISPUTES TOPICS

• Civil procedure (especially relief from sanctions, judicial bias and recusal, costs, limitation, freezing orders and other interim relief).
• Commercial remedies (injunctions, specific performance, termination, damages, declaratory relief and various other topics)
• The construction of contracts – how the Supreme Court authorities on the construction of contracts are being applied in practice in commercial cases & consideration of the Court’s view of ‘no oral modification’ clauses following Rock v. Advertising MWB.
• Privilege – Summary of Principles and Recent Cases, focus on regulatory investigations and large corporates.
• Enforcement of English commercial judgments and asset recovery
• Attribution of knowledge
• Contractual damages/assessment of damages: what benefits caused by a wrong must be brought into account?
• Rectification and the correction of mistakes: theoretical problems and practical answers
• Anti-suit injunctions

PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE AND CIVIL FRAUD

• How to: handling alleged / suspected fraud in Professional Indemnity and D&O claims
• Scope of duty after Manchester Building Society (two years on, where are we?)
• Damages for breach of warranty in share purchase agreements

SHIPPING

• Case update/recent developments in shipping law
• Shipbuilding: recurring disputes and how to avoid them
• Practical aspects of collision claims, containership causalities, tanker chartering, main engine breakdown
• General Average & York-Antwerp Rules 2016
• “Show me the money” – strategies for when a charterer doesn’t pay up
• “Constructive Total Loss on the figures” in the law of marine insurance

INSURANCE

Marine

• Introduction to marine insurance law
• Case update
• Open covers
• Autonomous shipping – liability and contractual issues

General

• Case update
• Business interruption and covid update
• Rectification and estoppel in insurance disputes
• Changes to the law of insurance introduced by the Insurance Act 2015 and Enterprise Act 2016
• Reinsurers’ liability/obligations at common law and the effect of “follow settlement” clauses.
• Fronts and captives
• Natural disasters
• Third parties and insurance

ENERGY

• Upstream contracts
• The “nuts and bolts” of FPSOs