Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty – Stevedore damage – Cargo of logs – Vessel sustaining damage from cargo during loading and discharging operations – Whether charterers entitled to rely on clause requiring master to notify charterers of damage within 24 hours

Charterparty – Cargo of milling wheat found to be contaminated with soya bean meal on discharge – Owners, charterers and cargo receivers concluding tripartite agreement – Clause 4(b) of tripartite settlement agreement providing for specified consequences in event of a finding by “an English Arbitration tribunal” that owners were not liable for the contamination – Whether clause 4(b) capable of being triggered by finding made in arbitration reference to which charterers were not a party

Arbitration – Award – Enforcement – P&I Club seeking to enforce arbitration awards for negative declaratory relief against Spain and France following loss of oil tanker Prestige – Whether defendants entitled to rely on state immunity

Practice – Slip rule – Court giving judgment and inviting parties to agree Order – Counsel agreeing terms of draft Order – Court perfecting Order in terms agreed – Whether court precluded from correcting or clarifying Order under slip rule – Whether court should exercise inherent jurisdiction to clarify order