Tricon Energy Ltd v MTM Trading LLC [2020] EWHC 700 (Comm) (23 March 2020)

BACKGROUND The High Court of Justice (Business and Property Courts of England and Wales) (the “Court”) heard a case in which, pursuant to section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, Tricon Energy Limited (the “Claimant”) appealed an award granted by the arbitral tribunal (the “Tribunal”). MTM Trading LLC (the “Defendant”) was the owner of the
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Boskalis Offshore Marine Contracting BV v Atlantic Marine and Aviation LLP (The “Atlantic Tonjer”) [2019] EWHC 1213 (Comm) (14 May 2019)

BACKGROUND Atlantic Marine and Aviation LLP (the “Owner”), the defendant in the matter, chartered the ‘Atlantic Tonjer’, a multi-purpose support vessel (the “Vessel”), to the claimant, Boskalis Offshore Marine Contracting BV (“the “Charterer”) under the BIMCO SupplyTime 2017 Charter Party for Offshore Support Vessels (the “BIMCO Agreement”). A charter party is a deed or an
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Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd and another v The Hut Group Ltd [2019] EWHC 2191(Comm)(29 August 2019)

SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND In or during May 2011, the claimants in the matter, namely Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Limited and Oliver Nobahar-Cookson (collectively the “Claimants”) concluded a written sale and purchase agreement with The Hut Group Limited (the “Defendant”) wherein the Claimants agreed to sell their shares in Cent Ltd (the “Company”) to the Defendant
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Eleni Shipping Limited v Transgrain Shipping BV (The Eleni P)[2019]EWHC 910 (Comm)(10 April 2019)

SUMMARY AND ARBITRATION AWARD This matter was an appeal from an arbitration award, over the correct interpretation of two clauses, namely clauses 49 and 101, in a charter party contract (a deed between a shipowner and a trader for the hire of a ship and the delivery of cargo)(the “Contract”). The arbitration tribunal who had
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Lloyds Bank Plc v McBains Cooper Consulting Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 452 (15 March 2018)

SUMMARY A property developer obtained a loan facility from Lloyds Bank PLC (the “Claimant”) in the sum of £2,625,000.00 (the “Facility”), which figure was subsequently reduced to approximately £2,500,000.00 (the “Revised Facility Amount”) for the redevelopment of a bingo hall (the “Development”). McBains Cooper Consulting Limited (the “Defendant”) was appointed as the project monitor surveyor
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Vedanta Resources Plc and Another v Lungowe and Others [2019] UKSC 20

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY This is an appeal in the UK Supreme Court (“SC”). The litigation in this matter arises from alleged toxic emissions from the Nchanga Copper Mine (“the Mine”) in the Chingola District of Zambia. The claims are based in delict, namely on the alleged breach of a common law duty of care and
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