Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

This was an appeal from that part of the judgment of Hobhouse J. which concerned the legal effect of a “signing indication” impliedly given to an underwriter by a broker at Lloyd’s. For an explanation of this practice - see the..

In December 1982 the plaintiffs obtained a Mareva injunction against Mr. T. restraining him from disposing of his assets or any interest in his assets within the jurisdiction exceeding £601,500. He was allowed to spend up to £100 per week..

It is not often that collisions at sea result in prosecutions in the criminal courts. However, a collision between two hydrofoil ferries operating between Hong Kong and Macau which resulted in the deaths of two passengers has led to the Privy..

The vessel Emerald Transporter was owned by Outer Ocean Navigation Corpn. Ltd. which owned other vessels which were “associated ships” in terms of section 3(7)(a)(i) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act, 105 of 1983. The Emerald..

The plaintiffs provided agency and stevedoring services and supplied necessaries to the defendants’ vessel Khalij Sky in the U.S.A. It was accepted that, according to United States law, the plaintiffs had a maritime lien on the vessel in..

In LMLN 136, 17 January 1985, the Appellate Division refused to allow the enforcement in America of judgments obtained against the defendants in the Queen’s Bench Division in England in 1975. The reason for the Appellate Division’s..