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Spiliada Maritime Corporation v. Cansulex Ltd. (The Spiliada) - House of Lords (Lord Keith, Lord Templeman, Lord Griffiths, Lord Mackay and Lord Goff) - 19 November 1986
The vessel Spiliada was owned by a Liberian corporation and managed in Greece. She was voyage chartered to Minerals & Metals Trading Corporation of India Ltd. M.M.T.C.) for the carriage of sulphur from Vancouver to Indian ports. The sulphur had..
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04 December 1986
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Luxor Trading Corporation v. Arab Maritime Petroleum Transport Co. (The Al Bida) - Court of Appeal (Fox, Parker & Nicholls L.JJ.)
- 18 November 1986
The vessel Al Bida
was time-chartered for two consecutive periods of one year under two tanker charterparties in the Standime form. The charterparties, which were in all material respects identical, described the vessel..
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04 December 1986
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Summit Investment Incorporated v. British Steel Corporation (The Sounion) - Court of Appeal (Sir John Donaldson M.R., Lloyd & Nicholls L.JJ.) - 2 December 1986
The vessel Sounion
was time-chartered under the NYPE form. Disputes arose under the charter. The charterers claimed $70,437 for the cost of diesel oil used for domestic consumption by the vessel.
Clause 20 of the NYPE charter provided:
Fuel used by..
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04 December 1986
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The Zuhal K - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) (Sheen J.) - 5 November 1986
Plaintiff cargo owners claimed against the defendant shipowners in respect of alleged cargo damage. The plaintiffs arrested the defendants’ vessel Selin
at Rotterdam. The vessel was entered with the Oceanus P. & I. Club. Oceanus offered a..
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04 December 1986
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The Good Herald - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.)
(Sheen J.) - 28 November 1986
In August 1981 the plaintiffs’ cargo was discharged from the defendants’ vessel Good Herald
. The plaintiffs alleged cargo shortage and damage. They issued a writ in rem
against the Good Herald
on 23..
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04 December 1986
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185 - 04 December 1986
Coastal International Trading Ltd. v. Maroil A.G. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Leggatt J.) - 23 October 1986
D agreed to sell about 50,000 tonnes of crude oil to P on c.i.f. terms. Both parties were oil traders. D failed to supply the oil and subsequently admitted liability for breach of contract. P sought damages based on loss of profits from a sub-sale..
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18 December 1986
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186 - 18 December 1986
Grace Shipping v. C.F. Sharp & Co. (Malaya) Pte. Ltd. - Privy Council (Lord Bridge, Lord Brandon, Lord Oliver, Lord Goff and Sir Ivor Richardson) - 10 December 1986
The Privy Council has stated that in a case where the trial judge had to assess the evidence of witnesses about telephone conversations which had taken place over five years prior to the hearing, memories could very well be unreliable and it was of..
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18 December 1986
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Carling O’Keefe Breweries of Canada Ltd. and anr. v. CN Marine Inc. and ors. (The Newfoundland Coast) - Fed.Ct. (Trial Div.) (Martin J.) - 17 November 1986
The plaintiff cargo owners claimed damages for loss of their cargo against the owners and the time charterers of the vessel Newfoundland Coast
. The main issue was whether the charterers (CN Marine) were liable as carriers. CN provided a passenger..
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18 December 1986
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Carling O’Keefe Breweries of Canada Ltd. and anr. v. CN Marine Inc. and ors. (The Newfoundland Const.) - Fed.Ct. (Trial Div.) (Martin J.) - 17 November 1986
CN argued that damages should be limited to $500 per container on the basis of Article IV, rule 5, of the Hague Rules, which provided:
Neither the carrier nor the ship shall in any event be or become liable for any loss or damage . . . in an amount..
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18 December 1986
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The Epimenidis - Court of Appeal of Ghent - 10 October 1986
The following note has been sent to us by Paul Goemans, Stephane Mirdikian and Anne Goemans, Avocats, at Antwerp:
This decision of the Court of Appeal of Ghent reverses the holding of the courts in international private law relating to preferential..
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18 December 1986
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In early November 1984, as the vessel was making her way west towards Montreal, her disponent owners entered into a sub-voyage charter for the carriage of a cargo from Duluth to Europe. On 21 November 1984 the Valleyfield Bridge failed, with the..
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18 December 1986
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186 - 18 December 1986