Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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SEEBERG v. RUSSIAN WOOD AGENCY, LTD.

(1934) 50 Ll L Rep 146

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice MacKinnon.

Charter-party - Demurrage - Strike of stevedores - Loading at Leningrad delayed - Discharge at Hull-Shipowners' lien for demurrage - Sum deposited by charterers (representatives in England of Exportles, Moscow) to release cargo-"9 (a). If the cargo cannot be loaded . . . by reason of a strike . . . of any class of workmen essential to the loading . . . the time for loading . . . shall not count during the continuance of such strike . . . (a strike . . . of the shipper's . . . men only shall not exonerate them from any demurrage for which they may be liable under this charter if by the use of reasonable diligence they could have obtained other suitable labour) . . ."-Whether a strike within the meaning of Clause 9 (a)-Relationship between Exportles and Russian Soviet Government considered-Allegation by shipowners that Exportles could have enforced the loading.

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