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The Ginga Terms: Five Points to Note for LPG Traders
In this article, we highlight five points to note for users of the CFR Far East Ginga LPG Forward Contract terms.
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Commodities Bulletin October 2025
In this edition, we feature articles on digital asset recovery in the UAE, a recent English law judgment on repudiatory breach, the 2025 Gafta…
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Getting Comfortable with Instability: Commodities Contracts and Disputes in an Evolving Landscape
This article considers some of the uncertainties facing the sector and the scope for potential disputes, as well as suggesting contractual options…
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Commodities Case Update 19th edition, September 2025
We are delighted to present the nineteenth edition of the Commodities Case Update, with a summary of key recent cases relevant to the…
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Arbitration Act 1996: First Appeal To Succeed on All of Sections 67, 68 & 69
In what is, as far as we are aware, the first and only reported case of its kind, the Court has today allowed an appeal against an arbitration…
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18th Commodities Case Update
We are delighted to present the eighteenth edition of the Commodities Case Update, with a summary of ten key recent cases relevant to the…
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What Does the New English Arbitration Act 2025 Mean for Parties?
“New law to turbocharge [England’s] position as the world-leader in arbitration” – that is how the UK government has described the new English…
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First English judgment clarifying the reasonable alternative to LIBOR
In a recent judgment that will have been welcomed by financial institutions dealing with legacy LIBOR contracts and parties seeking to …
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UK Supreme Court’s anti-suit ruling supports a foreign-seated arbitration
In the recent case of UniCredit Bank GmbH (Claimant) v RusChemAlliance LLC (Defendant), and in what is believed to be the first time that the UK …
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Commodities case update 17th edition: September 2024
Read our seventeenth edition of the Commodities Case Update, summarising 12 key recent cases relevant to the commodities sector.
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International Arbitration Quarterly | Edition Q2/2024
Welcome to the new edition of the HFW International Arbitration Quarterly, which features articles from colleagues across our network …
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Obtaining subpoenas against third parties in aid of arbitration in England
The English courts have a long history of supporting arbitration proceedings, including in securing attendance of witnesses and production of …
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