CLUB CRUISE ENTERTAINMENT AND TRAVELLING SERVICES EUROPE BV v THE DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT (THE “VAN GOGH”)

[2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 201

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Flaux

Shipping - Health and safety - Statutory power to detain vessel - Cruise vessel temporarily detained by Maritime and Coastguard Agency after outbreak of gastrointestinal virus - Whether detention valid - Whether detention constituted unlawful interference with goods - Whether court had jurisdiction to award statutory compensation - Merchant Shipping Act 1995, sections 94 and 95 - Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997, Regulation 28.