Insurance Law Reform – Is The Common Law Fighting Back?
Friday 19 June, 2009
Commercial insurance law is judge-made common law; the Marine Insurance Act simply recorded it as it stood in 1906, rather than setting out to change it.
When reform of that law arrived on the Law Commissions’ agenda, there was no doubt that the call for change commanded support both in some academic quarters and from at least one appellate Judge. Elsewhere in the judiciary, signs were less positive.
In 2007, Lord Justice Rix counselled against the Law Commissions trying to decide cases in advance suggesting they attend to principles only.
Insurance Law Reform – Is The Common Law Fighting Back?
(an abridged version of this article was published in Insurance Day on 19 June.)
Date: Tuesday 22 - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
Location: Dexter House, London
Ince & Co partners Kevin Cooper and Stephen Askins are leading a workshop on “Responding to and managing a Piracy incident” on Wednesday 23 May.
Date: Wednesday 20 June, 2012
Location: London
Ince & Co partner Stephen Askins is participating in the First BIMCO seminar on GUARDCON, the much anticipated GUARDCON standard contract for the employment of security guards on vessels, on Wednesday 20 June.