Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Shipping - Delivery of defective cargo - Settlement agreement - Construction of terms as to responsibility for storage costs - Obligation to negotiate in good faith

Arbitration - Separability - Contracts - Frustration - Oral agreement or oral variation to existing contract - Fixed Wreck Contract - Dispute arising out of or in connection with wreck removal contract - One-stop presumption

Contract (bill of lading) - Time bar - Extension of time - Bill of lading consignee obtaining time bar extension from "owner" - Litigation commenced against registered owner within time - Demise charterer joined out of time - Registered owner's defence that it was not a party to the contract of carriage - Demise charterer's time bar defence - Estoppel - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth), section 8 and schedule 1A - Hague-Visby Rules, articles 1 and 3 - Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

Admiralty - Limitation - Interest - Costs - Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, article 11 - BVI Merchant Shipping Act 2001, section 404

Admiralty - Sale of ship - Cruise vessel - Application for judicial sale of ship pendente lite without valuation - No appearance by defendant - Caveats against release - Orders made for judicial sale with provision for valuation - Form of undertaking under rule 69 of the Admiralty Rules 1988 (Cth) - Method of sale to be determined by Admiralty Marshal - Admiralty Rules 1988 (Cth), rules 23, 23(1), 69, 69(4)

Charterparty - Grounding - Whether discharge port unsafe due to incompetence of pilot or tug masters - Whether vessel unseaworthy for inadequate passage plan - Negligent navigation

Collision - Respective fault of the vessels - Crossing rule - Use of VHF - Collision Regulations, rules 14, 15, 16 and 17

Bareboat charterparty - Charterer given option to purchase on termination of charterparty - Sanctions imposed upon owners - Default in payment - Whether charterers entitled to title following payment required by charterparty - Effect of sanctions imposed upon payment

Arbitration - Error of law - Implication of terms into charterparty - LMAA Terms - Arbitration Act 1996, sections 57, 69 and 70