Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The House of Lords has now definitively stated that the High Court has no jurisdiction to grant relief against the exercise by a shipowner of his contractual right, under the withdrawal clause in a time charter, to withdraw the vessel from the..

On 24 September 1982 the plaintiffs obtained a Mareva injunction against the defendant in the usual form covering all the defendant’s assets within the jurisdiction save to the extent that they exceeded $13.2 million. The plaintiffs also..

After judgment had been delivered, the plaintiffs asked for interest on the sum awarded from 1 January 1979, a date selected as being a few weeks after the plaintiffs had submitted certain documents to the defendants for payment of the claim. Those..

A collision occurred when the bow of one vessel struck the other amidships, puncturing certain tanks containing a quantity of fuel oil which subsequently escaped into the water. Immediately after the collision the First Narrows Signal Station..

In a recent case (Improvair (Cape) (Pty.) Ltd. v. Etablissements Neu , 1983(2) S.A.L.R. 138) the Cape Provincial Divisional Court considered the approach to be adopted in determining the proper law of a contract where the parties had not themselves..

The vessel was chartered under a Gencon form to carry a cargo from India to “1_3 safe port(s) Lisbon_Denmark range including Kiel . . . Port(s) to be at charterers’ option, but in geographical rotation as ordered on signing bills of..