Subscribe to RSS feedCourt rules that Australians can ignore overseas arbitration
Clauses in voyage charterparties purporting to set arbitration venues overseas instead of in Australia were rendered void by a decision of the Federal Court last Friday.
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In the case of Dampskibsselskabet Norden v Beach Building & Civil Group [2012] FCA 696 it was held that voyage charterparties fall within the definition of “sea carriage documents,” under the Commonwealth’s section 11 of the Carriage of Goods by...
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