Reseau de Transport d'Électricité v Costain Ltd [2025] EWHC 73 (Admlty) - Admiralty Court (Mrs Justice Cockerill) - 20 January 2025

Admiralty - Limitation fund - Whether applicant for limitation was barred from pleading defence - Res judicata - Issue estoppel - Abuse of process - Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976

On 20 November 2016 two pairs of high voltage undersea electricity cables belonging to RTE and connecting England and France and were damaged in the English Channel. RTE claimed that the damage was caused in the aftermath of a collision between a dumb barge, Stema Barge II, and a general cargo vessel, Saga Sky, in the course of which the anchors of the two vessels were dragged over the cables.