CALTEX SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. AND OTHERS v. BP SHIPPING LTD.

[1996] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 286

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(ADMIRALTY COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Clarke

Practice - Stay of action - Limitation of liability - Collision in Singapore waters between defendants’ vessel and plaintiffs’ jetty - Differing limits of liability in England and Singapore - English law characterized limitation provisions of Singapore as procedural - Whether sufficient for plaintiffs to establish that act or omission complained of was actionable or tortious by lex loci delicti - Whether English limit should be applied - Whether action should be stayed - Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, ss. 503, 504 - Singapore Merchant Shipping Act, 1970, ss. 272, 273.