Counterparty due diligence in respect to terrorism and human rights issues must be maintained, while restrictions are still in place with regard to 'US persons'

PIRACY attacks have been in the headlines almost every day in recent months.

MARITIME and the general media are currently full of reports and features on pirate attacks, write Tim Stephenson and Jessica Taylor.

THE recent House of Lords decision in Phillips v Symes concerns one of many pan-European battles to secure dispute resolution before a preferred country’s court, writes Tim Stephenson.

ON SEPTEMBER 6 in Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc (the Achilleas), the Court of Appeal upheld shipowners’ claim for loss of profit on a subsequent fixture after late redelivery under the prior charterparty, and thus traced an important new path across this old ground.