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The lawsuit 1. Enquiry and legal assessment If you want to obtain judgement for a claim or you cannot obtain an agreement with your opponent, the only solution on the conflict could be a trial. However, a trial can be a costly and slowly affair. Therefore you should...

The dispute The dispute was about whether Württembergische Versicherung AG should pay damages to a Danish boat owner. The first question was whether the dispute was legitimately brought before the court in Nykøbing Falster, or whether the court in Stuttgart, where the...

In particular, the litigation concerns whether the damage occurred during transport from Denmark to Switzerland, as well as responsibility/liability and compensation. The process The Swiss company ordered a specially made machine from Twin Seam Company ApS in Denmark...

A carrier was ordered to pay the insurance company approximately $1,300,000. The background was that while driving in bad weather in the North Atlantic, eight trailers were washed overboard. Eight trailers were totaled and 14 trailers were partially affected by salt...

Lawyer Anders Stig Vestergaard is a legal expert in international trade and transport, and is also the author of numerous articles. The quarrel The dispute is over whether the trial should be conducted in the court in Hilleroed, Denmark, or in the court in Stuttgart,...

The Danish courts use several ways of serving notices. The manner of service is at the discretion of the court. The following are delivery methods, all of which are equally appropriate, effective and lawful. Mail delivery The court sends its notification as a letter...

The process Siemens Wind Power had signed a contract with an English company for Siemens to produce 8 windmills and deliver them to the Curragh Mountain Wind Park in Ireland. The contract determined i.a. The following: "All services provided by the Supplier are...

The dispute The dispute revolved around how the carrier had breached the agreement and whether he should pay a penalty and compensation. The main question in the case was whether the fine provisions of the general terms and conditions of the client were agreed. The...

Although the carrier did not lock the trailer while staying at a rest area, the court found him not responsible for the theft of wine. The process A wine merchant had made an agreement with a transport company for the transport of particularly expensive wine from...

The case A transport company had leased 5 trucks and trailers from a bank. In connection with the agreement in the leasing contracts, the bank handed over both the first and the second part of the vehicle registration documents to the transport company. The transport...

It is now possible to require digital communication if the court is to give a notice in a case being dealt with at the court's case portal. The notice may lawfully be given on simplified delivery or on digital delivery. In civil cases, the statement of claim and the...

The buyer in Denmark and the seller in Belgium agreed that commercial agreements are usually negotiated by telephone or Skype in the industry and that the agreement is confirmed with an order confirmation by either the buyer or the seller. Immediately after the...

The process The dispute arises from a shipment of breakfast products that was damaged during multimodal transport from the producer in Parchim, Germany to the recipient in England. The entire transport consisted of road transport from Parchim to the port of Hamburg,...

The transport company DSV Road A/S has been ordered to pay compensation for the loss suffered by Lego System A/S during transport from the Czech Republic to England. Lego had held DSV responsible for the loss of goods, but DSV had denied the claim. Lego then filed a...

The carrier was responsible for the damage that occurred in a container with machinery that was being transported from Copenhagen to Hudson, Illinois, USA. The process On December 2014, Blue Water took over the transport of a container with various machine equipment...

Freight transport can be carried out as road freight, sea freight, rail transport or air freight. National Road Freight Transport If the road transport has both origin and destination in Denmark, it is national transport. The transport is not covered by mandatory law,...