Following a similar, recent appointment, a major Oil Operating Company has expressed its continuing confidence in Saltire by appointing it to provide claims and dispute resolution advice on an FPSO project for the North Sea.

Following similar appointments over the past 11 years, the Real Estate division of a major US Oil Company has expressed its continuing confidence in Saltire by appointing it to provide claims defence and dispute resolution advice on a commercial building project in Papua New Guinea.

Saltire has been appointed to provide an ad hoc Contract review service to the UK Subsea Construction subsidiary of a major, US-based EPCI Contractor.

In September 2014, the Commercial Court handed down an unprecedented decision, finding that a liquidated damages (“LD”) clause in a contract was a “genuine pre-estimate of loss” at the time the parties entered into the contract, but later became a penalty upon amendment to reduce the contract price….

If there is no dispute, simply marking correspondence “without prejudice” will not protect it from disclosure in later legal proceedings. The parties may however agree that that should be its effect…..