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Commercial weekly highlights—12 December 2019

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Published on: 12 December 2019
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Table of contents

  • Contracts
  • Commercial Court upholds arbitral award on charterparty time-bar clause requiring provision of supporting documentation for claim (MUR Shipping v Louis Dreyfus (The ‘Tiger Shanghai’)
  • Novated architect’s claim for unpaid fees fails (Munkenbeck & Marshall v The Vinyl Factory)
  • Agency
  • Banks’ have no tortious and vicarious liability for packaged loans in film finance scheme (Barness v Ingenious Media Ltd)
  • Public procurement
  • Procurement Policy Note published on new financial thresholds
  • Advertising, marketing and sponsorship
  • ASA rulings for 11 December 2019
  • LexTalk®Commercial: a Lexis®PSL community

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes an analysis of the decision in MUR Shipping v Louis Dreyfus which concerned the interpretation of a standard provision in a time charter party imposing a 12-month time bar on claims, details of claims against Coutts and NatWest for breach of contract, negligence and vicarious liability being struck out or dismissed as having no prospects of success, the latest ASA rulings and news of the government’s recently issued Procurement Policy Note.

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