Articles

The barristers at Stone Chambers are author of a number of articles on a variety of legal topics and cases.

For details on books which Stone Chambers' barristers have written or contributed can be found on the publications page.

•  A Shipowners Right to Freight - the Bulk Chile [2013] EWCA Civ 184 - Thomas Steward (May 2013)
• No Place for Hindsight Principle When Valuing Client Trust Monies - Neil Henderson (Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, March 2013)
• Slow Steaming Update: The "Pearl C" [2012] 2 Lloyds Rep 533 - Neil Henderson & Tom Burdass (11 December 2012)
• The Price of Slow Steaming - Neil Henderson (19 October 2012)
  
• Keeping Repudiated Contracts Alive: "Aquafaith" - Andrew Leung (8 May 2012)
• Deviation and Fundamental Breach of Contract of Carriage - David Martin-Clark (9 Jan 2012)
• Demurrage Time-bars: Another Victory for Common Sense - Neil Henderson (29 Nov 2011)
• Enforcement of Foreign Insolvency Judgments - Ravi Aswani  (10 Oct 2011)
• Hong Kong's State of Immunity put to Test - Colin Wright (21 Sept 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Taking Onboard UK's New Bribery Law - Philip Riches & Liisa Lahti (17 Aug 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Insecure Securities: why guarantees should be handled with care - Mark Jones (29 June 2011,  Lloyd's List)
• Commodities Contracts - should the paper transaction be left out of account? Dominic Happe (Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, June 2011)
• What ever Happened to the Achilleas Ruling? - Jeremy Lightfoot (1 June 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Bills of exchange: are there set-off defences to a call on the bill? - Mary Gibbons (Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law, May 2011)
• B v S - FOSFA/GAFTA Claimants Frozen out of Interim Relief? - Henry Ellis (20 April 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Arrested Vessel can still be Covered by War Risks Insurance - Liisa Lahti (13 April 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Performance Bonds Prove Powerful in Absent Fraud - Ravi Aswani (9 Mar 2011, Lloyd's List)
• UK Supreme Court Clarifies Cargo Role in Inherent Vice - Peter Stevenson (2 Mar 2011, Lloyd's List)
  
• Should Shipping Lawyers Care About Incoterms 2010? - Charles Debattista (2 Feb 2011, Lloyd's List)
  
• Making Salvage Terms Stick - John Reeder QC (26 Jan 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Courts Take Hard Line Over Demurrage Time Bars - Neil Henderson (12 Jan 2011, Lloyd's List)
• Clarifying Forum Shopping in Absence of Express Choice - Ishfaq Ahmed (16 Dec 2010, Lloyd's List)
• Using Debt Set-offs in Dispute Resolution - Neil Henderson (17 Nov 2010, Lloyd's List)
  
• Arbitration Clauses and Uncertainty - Steven Gee QC (Lexis Nexis, Nov 2010)
  
• Ultimate Scope of Vice in Marine Casualties - Ishfaq Ahmed (27 Oct 2010, Lloyd's List)
  
• Frustrating Finances? - Mark Jones
• The Saldanha: Piracy and Off-Hire (4 Aug 2010, Lloyd's List) - Ravi Aswani & James Shirley
• Brussels Regulation Poses Threat to London Arbitration (7 July 2010, Lloyd's List) - Peter Stevenson
• Salvage Contracts: Article 7 of the International Salvage Convention 1989 (International Trade & Transport Newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 7, LexisNexis) - John Reeder QC
• Demand Guarantees and the Fraud Exception (Bankers' Law, Vol 3 Issue 4) - Steven Gee QC & Mary Gibbons
• London Arbitration Under Threat: The Wadi Sudr (International Trade & Transport Newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 6, LexisNexis) - Peter Stevenson
• Salvage Awards: The Ocean Crown (International Trade & Transport Newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 5, LexisNexis) - Ishfaq Ahmed
• Madoff Securities International Ltd (in liquidation) v Yacht Bull Corporation [2010] EWHC 133  - Case Report (Feb 2010) - Peter Stevenson
• Importance of Collateral Oral Contracts: Case Report on AS Klaveness Chartering v Pioneer Freight Futures Co Ltd (Jan 2010) - Neil Henderson
• Dangerous Cargoes: Legal and Physical Dangers (International Trade & Transport Newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 3, LexisNexis) - Neil Henderson
• Enforcement of Covenant not to Sue: Whitesea Shipping & Trading Corporation and another v El Paso Rio Clara LTDA and others [2009] EWHC 2552 (Comm) (International Trade & Transport Newsletter, Vol 1 Issue 2, LexisNexis) - Ravi Aswani
• The New UCP - Changes to the Tender of Shipping Documents under letters of Credit (2007) Journal of Business Law 329 - Charles Debattista
• The Remedies carried by a Freezing Injunction (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 535. - Steven Gee QC
• The Autonomy of Arbitrators and Fraud unravels all (2006) 22 Arbitration International 337. - Steven Gee QC
• The Undertaking in Damages (2006) Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 181 - Steven Gee QC
• Non disclosure in insurance law, a more principled approach (2006) 64 Amicus Curiae 10 - Ravi Aswani
• Transactions in Fraud of Creditors: The Foreign Element [2005] International Corporate Rescue (Issue 1) 29 - Steven Gee QC & Ravi Aswani
• Performance Bonds (2005) Vol 1 Bankers' Law 1 - Steven Gee QC & Mary Gibbons
• Drafting Enforceable Arbitration Clauses [2005] 21 Arbitration International 233 - Prof Charles Debattista
• Lords ruling sets out stance on straight bill presentation". Case-note on the "Raphaela S, HL (Lloyd's List, 2 March 2005). - Prof Charles Debattista and Ingolf Kaiser, Stephenson Harwood
• Arrests and Admiralty procedure, Shipping & Transport Lawyer, Vol. 4, No. 2 (January 2004) - Rachel Toney
• Straight bills of lading: a continuing saga in the English Courts Questions resolved, untouched and mooted by The Rafaela S in the published proceedings of the International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators, London 2004. - Prof Charles Debattista
• The Solicitor's duty to warn that a court might take a different view (2003) Professional Negligence Vol 19 p.362 - Steven Gee QC
• The 2003 Protocol to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage 1992: one bridge over some particularly troubled water, Journal of International Maritime Law (2003) Vol. 9, Issue 6, p. 530 - Elizabeth Blackburn QC
• "Straight" bills come in from the cold - or do they? A note on the Court of Appeal's judgement in The Rafaela S [2003] 2 Lloyd's Rep 113, cited with approval in the House of Lords judgment in the same case. - Prof Charles Debattista
• 'Laytime and demurrage clauses in contracts of sale - links and connections [2003] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 508-524 - Prof Charles Debattista
• Interpretation of Commercial Contracts (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 358 - Steven Gee QC
• Construing Contracts with Mistakes in them [2001] LMCLQ 214 - Steven Gee QC
• Demise Clauses in from the cold - or are they? - a note on The Starsin, (Lloyd's List, 21 February 2001) - Prof Charles Debattista (cited with approval in the House of Lords, a case in which Steven Gee QC led Vasanti Selvaratnam QC and Mark Jones for the successful party)
• Keeping Confidences (1998) Commercial Lawyer 38 (about Chinese Walls) - Steven Gee QC
• Mareva Injunctions-the Reforms of the Law made by its Soul [1998] International Journal of Insurance Law 133 - Steven Gee QC
• Mareva Injunctions - the Law (1995) Commercial Lawyer 52 - Steven Gee QC
• Mercedes and Mareva (1995) 139 Solicitors Journal 1076 - Steven Gee QC
• Diving In at the Deep End (1995) Law Society Gazette 23 (Damages for breach of contract) - Steven Gee QC