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Expert perspectives on the latest developments across our sectors and services.
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Prestige Sinks, Arbitration Agreement Floats
The Court of Appeal’s latest decision in the M/T Prestige saga1 reinforces the binding nature of arbitration agreements …
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Comprehensively Yachts – HFW Yachting Industry Briefing, December 2023
With 2023 drawing to a close, it has been another busy year for HFW’s yacht t…
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Comprehensively Yachts – HFW Yachting Industry Briefing, May 2023
As we enter another Mediterranean yacht season, with yachts and crews engagin…
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Has Putin torn up your contracts?
Matters have been moving at pace in the Ukraine in recent weeks, culminating …
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Limitation of liability for parties other than owners, charterers or managers: who is an “operator” for the purposes of the Limitation Convention
The English Court of Appeal have considered the meaning of the word "operator…
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Comprehensively Yachts – HFW Yachting Industry Briefing, July 2021
Though the 2021 Mediterranean yacht season may have been a little late in its…
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HFW Freeports Series | Freeports: Back in business?
Over the coming weeks, HFW will be launching a series of articles on the rein…
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Sulphur emissions in Northern Europe: Five years on, June 2020
Back in June 2017 we published an update1 on compliance with sulphur oxide (S…
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BRILLANTE VIRTUOSO: a cautionary tale for co-assured banks and mortgagees’ interest insurers
The High Court has dismissed a claim by the mortgagee bank of the "BRILLANTE …
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Nitrogen emissions limits in the Baltic Sea – A sign of things to come?
In a further article in their series on regulatory and commercial issues affe…
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2018 Yachts Market Briefing
With the 2018 Mediterranean yacht season fast closing and attention turning t…
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Getting prepared for the 2018 Yachting Season
With the early season yacht shows over and thoughts turning to summer cruisin…
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