THE "OCEAN CROWN"

[2010] Lloyd's Rep Plus 22

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (ADMIRALTY COURT)

Before Mr Justice Gross

Salvage - Remuneration - Assessment of award - Principle of encouragement - Whether tribunal entitled to take into account possibility that salvors might experience difficult economic conditions in future - Whether permissible to take into account actual economic conditions experienced between date of termination of the services and date of award - Whether principle in The Amerique applicable to complex and comprehensive cases - International Salvage Convention 1989, article 13.