Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

By a notice of motion the applicants applied for an order to remit an umpire’s award for further consideration on the ground that the umpire had erred in law and that the error was on the face of the award. A document headed “Reasons for..

Castanho, a Portuguese worker, had been rendered quadraplegic in an accident while working for Brown & Root on a North Sea oil rig supply vessel. An action had been started in England and Brown & Root had made two interim payments. Castanho..

A vessel loaded with 31,604 tons of wheat arrived at Bombay on Oct. 18. Notice of readiness was tendered at 10 00 on Saturday Oct. 19 and accepted at that time, subject to the charter-party. Her draught was then 35 feet. She waited until 18 15 on..

Creditors having obtained judgment against a debtor were granted a garnishee order nisi against a bank. The debtor had three accounts at the bank, one of which was in US dollars. There was no difficulty in attaching the two small sterling accounts..

The plaintiffs had entered into a contract with the defendants under which the defendants, in consideration of the plaintiffs’ producing the buyers to them, undertook to remunerate the plaintiffs by paying them commission on the sale to the..

The owners claimed for balance of hire, the matter in issue being whether or not the duration of the charter-party period should be calculated on the actual time of service by way of reference to Greenwich Mean Time rather than by taking the local..