Westwood Shipping Lines Inc and Another v Universal Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH and Another – QBD (Comm Ct) (Flaux J) [2012] EWHC 3837 (Comm) – 11 December 2012

Practice – Disclosure - Documentation produced in confidential arbitration – Whether claimants entitled to rely on documentation in support of proposed Commercial Court claim for unlawful conspiracy - Whether confidentiality waived – Whether disclosure necessary in interests of justice

The first claimants (Westwood) were the time charterers of the relevant vessel from a German company (GMB), GMB having chartered the vessel from her head owners (Kimberley).