Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Maritime lien - Owner paying bunkers on behalf of charterer - Charterer entitled to demurrage from sub-charterer - Whether owner had lien over demurrage debt - Effect of arbitration clause in charterparty

Charterparty - War and piracy risks - Ransom payment - General average - Subrogation immunity - Additional premiums for account of charterers - Whether obligations incorporated into bills of lading

Charter under a booking note - Voyage not performed - Whether charterers' claim time-barred - Whether "any possible alleged claim" extended to claims not relating to breaches of obligations on the voyage and included any possible claim however framed - Whether "lawsuit" included arbitration

Carriage of goods - Bill of lading - Carriage of cargo of steel rails between ports in different Australian states - Carrier commencing London arbitration on LMAA terms - Bill of lading containing clause paramount, choice of law clause and jurisdiction clause - Effect of foreign choice of law and jurisdiction clauses in respect of inter-state carriage - Anti-suit injunction - Stay - FIOST clauses - Australian amended Hague Rules - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth), sections 10(1)(b)(ii), 11(2), article 3(8) of schedule 1A

Admiralty - Action in rem - Conflict of laws - Forum non conveniens - Discharge of security - Maintenance of arrest