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News & Analysis as of May 21, 2013

The English Court of Appeal confirms the effectiveness of Certificates of Acceptance in aircraft leasing transactions

by Adrian Beasley, Justin Benson, Jason Yardley | White & Case LLP on 5/1/2013

The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Olympic Airlines SA (in special liquidation) v ACG Acquisition XX LLC [2013] EWCA Civ 369 gives welcome comfort to lessors that properly drafted Certificates of Acceptance will provide...more

Insight: Asset Finance - March 2013: High Hopes for Regulating International Aviation Emissions

by Adrian Beasley, Tallat Hussain | White & Case LLP on 3/27/2013

“Application of the [EU] emissions trading scheme to aviation infringes neither the principles of customary international law at issue nor the Open Skies Agreement”. This was the judgment of the European Court of...more

Shipping Group Monthly Bulletin - July 2011

by Reed Smith on 7/31/2011

In This Issue: BIMCO...3 BIMCO publishes Wreckhire 2010...3 CIVIL PROCEDURE...4 High Court grants relief from sanctions where the deadline for service of a witness statement was a bank holiday,...more

RS Shipping Bulletin - February 2011

by Reed Smith on 6/9/2011

In This Issue: 1 Carriage Of Goods . . . 3 1 . 1 Court Of Appeal Considers The Meaning And Reasonableness Of The ‘No Set-Off’ And ‘Time Bar’ Clauses In The British International Freight Association Terms . . . 3 2...more

Court Tosses Transpacific Air Passengers' Claims Based on Alleged Overcharges for Flights Originating in Asia

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/17/2011

On May 9, 2011, the District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed with prejudice air passenger travel claims based on foreign injury in an MDL action alleging a ten-year international conspiracy among the...more

RS Shipping Bulletin - January 14, 2011

by Reed Smith on 1/14/2011

Covered in this issue 1 ARBITRATION . . .3 1 . 1 COMMERCIAL COURT CONSIDERS THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT MAY GRANT SECURITY WHERE A PARTY IS CHALLENGING THE JURISDICTION OF THE TRIBUNAL . . . 3 1 . 2 HIGH COURT...more

Shipping Newsletter - December 2010, Issue 27

by Reed Smith on 12/17/2010

IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Can a Vessel be arrested for a Forward Freight Agreement claim in China? 2. Changes to Port State Controls 3. A Second Bite at the Litigation Cherry: “Collateral Attack” 4. The Maritime Labour...more

U.S. Court Grounds Europe-Japan Air Travel Price-Fixing Case

by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/16/2009

On October 16, 2009, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982, 15 U.S.C. § 6a ("FTAIA") mandated...more