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What are the responsibilities of the “commercial person” who seeks to comply with UK sanctions against Russia, but is unclear as to whether the entity they are dealing with could be considered to be owned or controlled by a Designated Person? ...

English law recognises informal contracts concluded over email but in the absence of a signed document, when is a contract deemed to be binding if one of the parties denies one was ever agreed? The facts of the well-known grounding of the Ever Given in the...

Rachael Opeagbe has joined CJC’s London office as an Associate Solicitor in the Commercial and Finance Department, in a further addition to the firm’s commercial shipping expertise. She brings a broad range of experience in working on...

Q2 has proved a busy period for CJC’s workboat specialists based on workload, but also on attending two key industry events focusing on the challenges and opportunities facing its offshore support vessel, tug and other service boat clients. CJC...

The Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC) transactional team, consisting of Alastair Macaulay (Consultant and Marshall Islands counsel), James Clayton (Partner and Head of the Commercial and Finance Department), Simran Keightley (Associate) and Rachael...

Shipping companies trading to Nigeria need to be aware of an important developing situation.  A significant number of ship owners have received demands from the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service (“FIRS”) for payment of back-dated taxes...

Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC) has announced that Richard Murray is re-joining its London-based team as a Managing Associate.  The announcement coincides with the appointment of nine CJC senior associates to the newly created company role of managing...

Alex Hudson , Neil Jackson , Keeley Edmondson , Deven Choudhary and David Fittis from CJC’s  Newcastle   office joined forces with NorthStandard’s Wilf How, Claude Lattin, Vicky Turner and Dominika Cudak to take part...

Demurrage liquidates all damages suffered by owners as a result of charterers’ failure to complete cargo operations within laytime – for now at least. Neil Jackson provides the details. Please click  here  to access the full...

Campbell Johnston Clark recently acted for Charterers in the English High Court successfully bringing an appeal under s69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 against the award of an LMAA Tribunal concerning off-hire following the failure of a vessel’s cargo...