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Seaboard Offshore Ltd v Secretary of State for Transport (The “Safe Carrier”) - House of Lords (Lord Keith, Lord Bridge, Lord Jauncey, Lord Browne-Wilkinson and Lord Nolan) - 23 March 1994
Section 31(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1988 provides:
“It shall be the duty of the owner of a ship to which this section applies to take all reasonable steps to secure that the ship is operated in a safe manner”
Subsection (2)..
Online Published Date:
02 April 1994
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376 - 02 April 1994
Vao Exportkhleb v The Owners of the M/V “Varna” - QBD (Admlty Ct) (Clarke J) - 7 March 1994
This was an application by the defendant shipowners for a stay of the action on the ground that the action should be tried in Bulgaria. The grounds of the application for a stay were as follows:
(1) that some or all of the issues which were the..
Online Published Date:
02 April 1994
Appeared in issue:
376 - 02 April 1994
Marine Atlantic Inc v Blyth and Others - Federal Ct (Trial Div) (Nadon J) - 26 November 1993
The plaintiff had obtained a Mareva injunction against the corporate defendants preventing them from disposing of, incumbering, releasing or dispossessing themselves of any assets or from removing them from Canada. The defendants applied for that..
Online Published Date:
02 April 1994
Appeared in issue:
376 - 02 April 1994
Great Beluga Shipping Inc v Bayoil Inc (The “Energy Explorer”) - Before Alfred E Yudes Jr, Jack Berg and Lloyd C Nelson - 21 December 1993
The vessel Energy Explorer
was at Loop discharging an Iraqi crude cargo for the charterers (a United States corporation) when she was fixed for a further voyage by the charterers. No specific loadport was designated although the fixture telex..
Online Published Date:
02 April 1994
Appeared in issue:
376 - 02 April 1994