Tom Burdass, recently appointed as a legal director at Hill Dickinson, has spoken to IHS Fairplay magazine on some of the current challenges facing the shipping industry.

International law firm Hill Dickinson has announced an exciting line-up of guest speakers and panels for the two seminars it is hosting during London International Shipping Week 2017.   

Hill Dickinson is delighted to announce that commercial litigation partner Paul Walsh and associate Paul Twigg have recently completed the Society for Computers and Law Foundations of IT Law Programme. 

Hill Dickinson, The Compliance Foundation and Xyone Cyber Security have joined forces to launch today a unique and complete 360 solution to the challenges that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents to businesses. This new and comprehensive service will allow them to be able to respond effectively to every aspect of GDPR, be it legal, compliance, or IT-related.

On 21 July 2017, secretary of state for transport, Chris Grayling, formally launched the government’s call for evidence in respect of a long term strategy for UK aviation. Beyond the Horizon – The Future of UK Aviation contains six key objectives that the government has identified in order to drive an industry that is, and continues to be, vital to the prosperity of the UK economy. Aviation is important in its own right and as an enabler of growth in other sectors. The six objectives identified by the government will essentially focus on customer satisfaction, safety and security, UK global connectivity, competition, sustainable growth and innovation. At face value, there is perhaps nothing particularly ground-breaking about them. However, it does provide some comfort to the industry to know that the government is forward planning in light of continued geopolitical uncertainty.

Alastair Long from Hill Dickinson’s aviation team will be speaking at the ERA (European Regions Airline Association) Industry Affairs Group which is being held on Thursday 6 July in Brussels.

Hong Kong has a new insurance regulator – the independent Insurance Authority (iIA). Yesterday, on 26 June 2017 the Provisional Insurance Authority PIA was renamed ‘Insurance Authority’ and has taken over the regulation of insurers and two years later also the regulation of intermediaries.

Join us at our annual ports conference on Thursday 6 July 2017 at our London office.

In this case the Court of Appeal was required to consider the point at which effective delivery occurred and whether or not an electronic system of pin codes could be a sufficient substitute for bills of ladings.

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson hosted its annual aviation law seminar on Thursday (18 May) at its Broadgate Tower office, London with an impressive line-up of guest speakers from acr

The wait is over. On 4 May 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation ('the Regulation') was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Every organisation, both within and outside the European Union ('EU'), controlling and/or processing EU citizens’ personal data must ensure they comply with the provisions of the Regulation by 25 May 2018.

For several years uncertainty prevailed over whether the European Parliament would ever pass the General Data Protection Regulation. The wait is over. The Regulation has now been approved by MEPs. Andrew Hill and Andrew Schütte review.