Tag: court

The duty commander of a Norwegian Navy frigate that sank in 2018 after colliding with an oil tanker was found guilty of negligence by a Norwegian court.

Earlier this week, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom concluded that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell companies over the Nigeria Bonga oil spill in 2011.

Mr. Ian MacLean, Partner, Master Mariner & Deputy Head of Office at Hill Dickinson answers key questions with regards to the Ever Given:(a) why did the court find SMIT were entitled to salvage remuneration? (b) a rare opportunity to see contemporaneous owner / salvor correspondence; and (c) what litigation risk lessons are there? 

The Norwegian Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Svalbard Treaty does not grant the right to catch snow crab on the continental shelf off the coast of Svalbard.

Shipping companies will pay nearly $97 million to settle a lawsuit with a pipeline operator over a 2021 oil spill off the coast of Southern California, the pipeline company said Wednesday 1 Mar.

Environmental and Indigenous groups are in Federal Court, challenging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change’s approval of Bay du Nord, a controversial $12-billion oil and gas project proposed off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company confirmed that it has accepted a proposal to jointly fund a settlement with claimants relating to the 2021 Orange County pipeline oil spill.

The Philippines Agricultural Department formally filed agricultural smuggling cases against the captain and crew of the M/V SUNWARD on February 9 after a joint inspection of the vessel last month yielded P400 M worth of smuggled sugar.

According to a new complaint, the UK capital’s insurance industry is partly to blame when fishing vessels “go dark” at sea by turning off their mandatory satellite tracking equipment.

Shipping giant AP Moeller-Maersk is suing Evergreen in a Danish court, seeking compensation for delays caused by the blockage of the Suez Canal when the Ever Given ran aground on March 23rd, 2021