Video: Incidencias del Covid-19 en el transporte marítimo
Proyecto Ley de Navegación en Ecuador.- Durante el trámite del proyecto de ley de Navegación, Gestión de Seguridad y Protección Marítima, tuve la oportunidad de hacer una exposición a la Comisión de Soberanía y Relaciones Internacionales de la Asamblea Nacional aportando con comentarios a dicho proyecto. En resumen, las sugerencias: 1) Incluir las funciones de […]
Servicios Complementarios: Devolución de IVA
Los desafíos que enfrentan las compañías de Servicios Complementarios de actividades marítimas para acogerse al Régimen de Devolución del IVA en la Exportación de Servicios. La Ley Orgánica para el Fomento Productivo, Atracción de Inversiones, Generación de Empleo, Estabilidad y Equilibrio Fiscal (LFP, según el Comité de Política Tributaria), incluye la devolución del IVA para […]
Intervención de Leonidas Villagran en el Proyecto Ley de Navegación en Ecuador
Proyecto Ley de Navegación en Ecuador.- Durante el trámite del proyecto de ley de Navegación, Gestión de Seguridad y Protección Marítima, tuve la oportunidad de hacer una exposición a la Comisión de Soberanía y Relaciones Internacionales de la Asamblea Nacional aportando con comentarios a dicho proyecto. En resumen, las sugerencias: 1) Incluir las funciones de […]
Commercial Dispute Resolution: The International Approach
Considering some facts regarding disputes in the International Trade arena. Most of the time parties in international trade develop all kind of businesses without primary concern of a potential conflict between them. Some of these parties do business with the other for a first time; others have a long time relationship. Types of businesses are […]
Setting up a corporation in Ecuador
Freedom of Contract in International Carriage Contracts. What about Ecuador ?
The Doctrine of Freedom of Contract also known as “Laissez Faire” is the basis for international carriage contracts, according to Common Law. In Ecuador there are some considerations according tThe Consumers Act The Doctrine of Freedom of Contract also known as “Laissez Faire” is the common law and civil law basis for international carriage contracts. […]
Causation in Maritime Insurance: The Cendor MOPU
The Cendor MOPU case law brings a new scenario to insurance law. Causation is a very important part in marine insurance law. The general principle in English Law is that the insurer will only be liable for any loss, which is proximately caused by a peril insured against. (Marine Insurance Act, 1906, section 55). At […]
Extinctive Prescription, characteristics
Prescription is a roman law legacy. Comes from the Latin praescriptio, composed word of the terms prae and scribere which means prior to be written (Opala 1971). Charles P. Sherman mentions that under Roman law prescription consisted in a preliminary allegation before addressing the main issue in a trial. He cites that there were many […]
The Constitution of Ecuador, 2008
The current constitutional system in Ecuador is a constitutional state of rights and justice. As a result, there is a special focus in two characteristics: first, the direct application of the fundamental rights and, second, the source of constitutional law beyond the formal text of the constitution which entitles constitutional judges to observe also foreign […]
Civil Law and Common Law
The author writes about the differences between English Law and the Civil Law. Ecuador is under the Civil Law System. The common law system which is applied in England and Wales, and other jurisdictions (some former British colonies as the United States, Singapore, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Canada, Australia, Belize, Hong Kong, Trinidad and Tobago, […]