Charles Priday

Date of Birth: 1959
Date of Call: 1982
Languages: French (working knowledge)

General Information
BA Oxon (double first).  Scholar of University College.  Middle Temple exhibition.

Practice
Charles Priday specialises in all aspects of commercial law, including in particular shipping, sale of goods, commodities and all other aspects of international trade, as well as insurance and banking cases.

Selected Cases
The Petr Shmidt [1998] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 1 and The Agamemnon [1998] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 675 (CA and Commercial Court decisions on the law of laytime)

Marc Rich v Portman [1997] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 225 (Court of Appeal decision on charterers’ liability Insurance)

The Nour  [1999] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 1: (Court of Appeal decision on dangerous cargo).

The Maciej Rataj [1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 302 and [1992] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 552 (a leading decision of the European Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal on the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982)