A worldwide freezing order under English law is a legal instrument that allows to freeze a defendant’s assets located across the world, and not limited to just one jurisdiction. In contrast to an arrest, a worldwide freezing order has no effect in rem, but ad personam. It may exert enforcement and good conduct pressure on internationally […]
Category: Maritime Industry
Chittagong scrap yard: The last shipowner is responsible for the working conditions (?)
Background The English High Court, by order of 13 July 2020 ([2020] EWHC 1846 (QB) – Hamida Begum vs. Maran (UK) Ltd), allowed a lawsuit by which the widow of a worker who died in a fatal accident at a scrap yard in Bangladesh sued the last shipowner of a tanker sold for scrapping to […]
Court Reduces Liability of Party Involved in Assisting in Discharge Operation by Almost 90 %*
In the maritime world, shipowners, charterers, as well as professional operators and managers of vessels can limit their liability under the 1976 London Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (“the Convention”). In the case at hand, The English Admiralty Court ruled that the Convention applies not only to professional managers and operators of […]
New U.S. Sanctions Advisory for the Maritime Industry
On May 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) together with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Coast Guard issued “Sanctions Advisory for the Maritime Industry, Energy and Metals Sectors, and Related Communities” (the “Advisory”). The Advisory offers a global guidance across 10 sectors that touch […]