Smit Salvage BV and Others v Luster Maritime SA and Another (The "Ever Given") [2023] EWHC 697 (Admlty)

Salvage contracts: intention to be bound

Shipping rarely catches the world's attention to quite the extent it did on 23 March 2021 when the container vessel Ever Given grounded in the Suez Canal. A jurisdiction agreement has brought a resulting salvage dispute to the High Court of England and Wales.