The Stolt Kestrel: Issuing a claim in rem does not stop time running against a claim in personam – probably

Stolt Kestrel BV v Sener Petrol Denizcilik Ticaret AS (The Stolt Kestrel and The Niyazi S); CDE SA v Sure Wind Marine Ltd (The SB Seaguard and The Odyssée) [2015] EWCA Civ 1035

The Stolt Kestrel was one of a number of cases to have come before the Admiralty Court in 2015 in which both parties relied on competing analyses of the relationship between an Admiralty claim in personam and in rem.