Аксель Боэс и Алексей Пономарёв совместно с нашими партнёрами Эдуардом Кузнецовым из Marine Legal Bureau (Рига) и Норайром Бабаджаняном из Redstone Chambers (Москва) подготовили перевод Регламента Германской морской арбитражной ассоциации на русский язык. Русскоязычная версия Регламента доступна по данной ссылке: https://gmaa.de/index.php/en/arbitration/arbitration-rules. Мы убеждены, что теперь разрешение споров в ГМАА для русскоязычных сторон, осуществляющих морские перевозки […]
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (OLG Hamburg) ruled whether a shipper is a „protected party“ under the arbitration agreement concluded between the carrier and another shipper. Other than in the order of the same court of 23 May 2019 (6 Sch 1/19 – see here: https://kdb.legal/en/a-third-party-may-rely-on-an-arbitration-clause-contained-in-a-contract-with-protective-effect-for-that-third-party/ the OLG ruled that the packaging obligations in […]
In a (yet unpublished) decision of 23 May 2019, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg established the criteria, when a third-party can rely on arbitration clauses. By this decision, the Higher Regional Court extended the third-party-effect of arbitration clauses not only to beneficiaries („Vertrag zu Gunsten Dritter“) but as well to third-parties who are just […]
The Higher Regional Court (OLG) of Frankfurt/Main vacated an ICC-award rendered in Frankfurt (court order of 16.01.2020 case no. 26 Sch 14/18) for violation of the right to be heard in court and – in an obiter dictum – stated that dissenting opinions violate the (internal) German public policy. The dispute in question was initiated […]
In a recently published decision (RdTW 2020, p. 157), the District Court of Hamburg (court case no. 415 HKO 55/18) ruled that a letter of undertaking from a P&I Club based in the UK is not a suitable form of security. Background: The case decided by the District Court of Hamburg concerned proceedings of a […]
In a decision of 16 January 2020 (court case no. I ZB 23/19), the German Supreme Court rendered a decision about the right to be heard in court in the context of proceedings to determine the admissibility of arbitration proceedings. Although this decision concerned an appeal against a state court decision of the Higher Regional […]
Mit Urteil vom 23.01.2019 (Az. A40-232485/2018) hat das Arbitragegericht der Stadt Moskau die Anerkennung und Vollstreckbarerklärung eines belgischen Urteils versagt. Zur Begründung wurde ausgeführt, dass mit Belgien kein völkerrechtlicher Vertrag über die Anerkennung und Vollstreckbarerklärung ausländischer Gerichtsentscheidungen bestehe. Erwägungen, die Anerkennung auf Grundlage des Prinzips der Gegenseitigkeit sowie auf Grundlage von Art. 6 des Europäischen […]