A v B (THE “TAI HUNTER”)

[2021] Lloyd's Rep. Plus 114

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Henshaw

Sale of goods (fob) – Sale of Ukrainian feed corn – Buyers making invalid nomination of vessel – Sellers purporting to terminate contract – Whether false nomination was breach of condition – Whether nominated vessel had to have been already chartered by buyers – Whether buyers’ obligation to provide copy of charterparty was a condition – Arbitration – Serious irregularity – Whether GAFTA Board of Appeal failed to consider various matters – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 68 and 69.