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Maritime |
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Arbitration |
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Our maritime law practice services P&I Clubs, shipping companies, ship service providers, NVOCCs and freight forwarders, including many of Canada's top players in the shipping community. We advise and provide legal representation of clients before the Courts and before arbitration and administrative tribunals in a variety of matters, including: · Cargo Claims · Charterparty Disputes · Collisions and groundings · Salvage Claims and General Average · Liens · Pollution Incidents · Pilotage Disputes · Crew Matters · Personal injury
We also assist with contract drafting and solicitor-type advice in connection with charterparties, bills of lading, contracts of affreightment, booking notes, equipment interchange agreements, passenger carriage contracts, ship repair and ship building contracts, steamship agency contracts and ship sale contracts.
The firm also advises extensively on the Canadian statutory and regulatory framework, including: · Carriage of Dangerous Goods · Immigration Matters Affecting Ships · Withholding Tax on Charter Hire · Cabotage · Ship Inspection |
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We represent clients before arbitration tribunals and panels, whether ad hoc or institutionalized arbitration, e.g. ICC. Some of us also act as arbitrators, whether as sole arbitrators or on a panel. Our arbitration experience runs across the entire range of our practice; from maritime arbitration through to non-marine commercial contract disputes. |
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Contract |
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Advice in relation to contracts is an every-day part of our practice. From passenger contracts to charterparties, from environmental cleanup agreements to mediation agreements, and everything in between, we counsel in relation to negotiating, drafting, interpretation and disputes of all kinds. |
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We act for clients before the Courts, arbitration panels and administrative tribunals across the entire range of our practice areas. We have appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada on numerous occasions and have extensive experience in the Federal Courts and the various Courts of the Province of Quebec. In addition, we act in cases before Courts in other Canadian jurisdictions, notably Ontario. |
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Litigation |
