DAMAGES, REMEDIES AND RECOVERIES IN SHIPPING AND COMMERCIAL LAW
By popular demand, the seventeenth International Colloquium organised by the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University Law School is back this year, being once again held in person in its traditional slot in the first week of September 2022.
In shipping, insurance and commercial law, what matters at the end of the day is what remedy, whether money or otherwise, the claimant can get (or the defendant resist). In this latest Colloquium we shine the spotlight on these issues and look to a number of new trends and liability issues. As ever, the discussions will range freely over national, international, and EU legal dimensions, and will in each case be led by panels of top professional and academic experts.
Topics discussed are very varied, but will include:
· Deductions from damages, net values
· Smart contracts- loss and damages
· Ship sales and seller’s potential duty of care
· Judgments in Bitcoin- currency of judgment
· Damages and agreed compensation
– Limitation of liability- recent developments
– Claims for Third Party Loss
· Reflective loss
· Internet of things and potential damages
· Digital Banking and Liability Issues
– Liability for drones
· Damages and force majeure
· Specific Remedies
· Anti-suit injunctions
· Punitive Damages in Maritime Cases — A View from Across the Pond
· Shipping operators’ obligations & liabilities under the EU emission reductions strategy
The format will be unchanged, and familiar to anyone who has been to any of our previous Colloquia. Each session will be regulated by a chairperson with discussion led by two or three speakers, followed by as much free and open debate as time allows. All delegates will be provided with a full pack containing papers and source materials. The proceedings will, at a later date, be published in full by Informa (to whom we are enormously grateful for continued sponsorship and unstinting support).
The following is the list of speakers and chairpersons confirmed:
Adam Sanitt, Knowledge Director, Digital and Innovation, Norton Rose Fulbright
Grace Asemota, Partner, Hannaford Turner LLP
Professor Simon Baughen, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
Simon Croall QC, Barrister, Quadrant Chambers
Josephine Davies, Barrister, Twenty Essex
Peter MacDonald-Eggers QC, 7 KBW
Chris Kidd, Partner, Ince
Associate Professor George Leloudas, Institute of International Shipping and Trade law, Swansea University
Dr Andrea Miglionico, Lecturer, Reading University
Gemma Morgan, Barrister, Quadrant Chambers
Dr Melis Ozdel, Lecturer, Faculty of Laws, UCL | Director, UCL Centre for Commercial Law, and Consultant, Birketts LLP
Professor B. Soyer, Institute of International Shipping and Trade law, Swansea University
Andrew Preston, Partner, Preston Turnbull LLP
Dr Frank Stevens, Associate Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Professor Andrew Tettenborn, Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
Jonathan Webb, Partner, HFW
Professor Lia Athanassiou, University of Athens
Professor Michael F Sturley, University of Texas
