Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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UBC CHARTERING LTD. v. LIEPAYA SHIPPING CO. LTD. (THE “LIEPAYA”)

[1999] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 649

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Rix

Charter-party (Time) - Cargo contamination - Rejection - Vessel twice rejected for loading of caustic soda - Vessel missed laydays and sub-charter cancelled - Vessel redelivered on one day’s notice of redelivery - Loadings of first foot of caustic soda demonstrated contamination by palm oil - Mechanism by which palm oil emerged into caustic soda - Whether vessel unseaworthy - Quantum in respect of redelivery and failure to mitigate.

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