Picture this scenario – you charter a cruise ship. It’s all going well, so you decide to extend the charter period by a further 2 years, but you have a change of heart and tell the owners that you won’t be taking the ship for the extended period after all. The owners, unsurprisingly, take issue with this. They call you up on it holding you in breach and they then accept that breach as terminating the charter party. You then re-deliver the ship to the owners, and in the meanti

On 9 March 2016 the UK’s Supreme Court gave judgment in the long-running dispute between Magmatic Limited (“Magmatic”), the makers of the children’s ride-on suitcase known as a ‘Trunki’, and, PMS International Group Plc (“PMS”) the manufacturers of a rival product, the ‘Kiddee’. The judgment is a significant one, and is expected to have wider long-term implications in the sphere of intellectual property rights, specifically, protection of intellectual property rights afforded

The recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC, handed down on 2 March 2016, is of interest to employers, particularly those (such as crew employers) who employ people who will interface with members of the public. The case concerns an employee of the respondent supermarket, who launched a serious physical assault on the claimant following a verbal altercation over a trivial request. The motivation for the assault appears to have bee