GOLDEN OCEAN GROUP LTD v SALGAOCAR MINING INDUSTRIES PVT LTD AND ANOTHER
[2012] Lloyd's Rep Plus 27
COURT OF APPEAL
Before Lord Justice Rix, Lord Justice Tomlinson and Sir Mark Waller
Charterparty (Time) - Guarantee - Brokers negotiating charter by email - Negotiations proceeding on basis that charterers would be "fully guaranteed" by first defendant - No single document identifiable as contract of guarantee - No signed charterparty drawn up - Whether final email in sequence "signed" by broker on behalf of first defendant - Whether contract of guarantee enforceable - Statute of Frauds 1677, section 4.