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Mitsui & Co. Ltd. v. Novorossiysk (The Gudermes) - Court of Appeal (Nicholls V.C., Stuart-Smith and Staughton L.JJ.) -
21 December 1992
The vessel Gudermes
was chartered by a Russian oil trading corporation for the carriage of a cargo of 31,000 tonnes of fuel oil for carriage from Aden to (as it turned out) Ravenna in Italy. The Hague-Visby Rules were not..
Online Published Date:
09 January 1993
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344 - 09 January 1993
Antwerp United Diamonds B.V.B.A. v. Air Europe - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Phillips J.) -
18 December 1992
The plaintiff was the owner of a consignment of diamonds which the defendant agreed to carry by air from Zerventum Airport, Brussels, to Gatwick Airport, London. The carriage of the diamonds was subject to the Warsaw Convention...
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09 January 1993
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344 - 09 January 1993
Leif Hoegh & Co. A/S v. Petrolsea Incorporated (The World Era) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Phillips J.) - 17 December 1992
In arbitration proceedings between Petrolsea and Leif Hoegh arising out of a charterparty, Petrolsea claimed that certain documents were privileged from inspection by the class of privilege commonly known as “common interest privilege”...
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09 January 1993
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344 - 09 January 1993
British Aerospace v. The Dee Howard Company - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Waller J.) -
10 December 1992
British Aerospace (“B.Ae”) and The Dee Howard Company (“D.H.C.”) entered into an agreement known as the Technical Assistance Agreement (“T.A.A.”). Under the T.A.A., B.Ae agreed to provide D.H.C...
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23 January 1993
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345 - 23 January 1993
Mediterranean Freight Services Ltd. v. B.P. Oil International Ltd. (The Fiona) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (H.H. Judge Diamond Q.C. sitting as a High Court Judge) - 12 November 1992
On 31 August 1988 an explosion occurred in No. 1 tank of the tanker Fiona
while she was preparing to discharge her cargo of fuel at an off-shore platform near the Long Island Lighting Company’s power plant at Northport, New York. The..
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23 January 1993
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345 - 23 January 1993
Itel Containers International Corporation and others v. Atlanttrafik Express Service Ltd. and others - U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) (Van Graafeiland, Winter and Mahoney Ct.JJ.) - 14 December 1992
In 1984 Atlanttrafik Express Ltd. (“A.E.S.”) was formed to operate a container shipping line. The vessels it used, the defendants in rem
in the present case, were owned by the defendants and chartered to A.E.S. To conduct its..
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23 January 1993
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345 - 23 January 1993
In Re Cleveland Tankers Inc. (The Jupiter) - U.S. District Ct. (Eastern District of Michigan) (Duggan D.J.) - 10 December 1992
The issue before the Court was whether the conclusions contained in the National Transportation Safety Board Reports and those contained in the U.S. Coast Guard report were admissible. Total Petroleum and Cleveland Tankers agreed that the factual..
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23 January 1993
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345 - 23 January 1993
Christopher & Ors. v. The motor vessel Fiji Gas - Supreme Court of Queensland
(Cooper J.) - 11 March 1992
The first plaintiff owned the fishing vessel Antonia
which was crewed by the second plaintiffs. The Antonia
was anchored at Thursday Island when the Fiji Gas
collided with it while aborting an attempt to berth at the..
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23 January 1993
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345 - 23 January 1993