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Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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HAY & OTHERS v. MERSEY DOCKS & HARBOUR BOARD (DETINUE) AND HAY & OTHERS v. MERSEY DOCKS & HARBOUR BOARD (LIMITATION). ["THE COUNTESS."]

(1923) 14 Ll.L.Rep. 441

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before the Earl of Birkenhead, Viscount Finlay, Lord Atkinson, Lord Sumner and Lord Phillimore.

Collision with Dock Gates-Consequent Damage to Craft in River-Detention of colliding Vessel by Dock Authority.- Limitation of Liability-Claim by Barges for Rateable Proportion of their Damages out of limited Sum-Disposal of Amount in Court transferred to Credit of Limitation Action-Claim by Dock Owners for Damages in Priority -Effect of Private Acts and Merchant Shipping Acts.

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