COAST LINES LTD. v. HUDIG AND VEDER CHARTERING N.V.

[1971] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 390

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Roskill

Charter-party (Voyage) - Gencon form British ship chartered to Dutch charterers - Whether charter-party governed by English law - Dutch law applying Netherlands Commercial Code (Hague Rules) to carriage by sea from Dutch ports - Whether Gencon exception clause overridden - Whether English Court should give leave under R.S.C., Order 11 to serve notice of writ issued by shipowners against charterers. Practice - Writ - Charter-party governed by English law - Whether English Court will give leave to British shipowner to serve notice of writ out of jurisdiction - Foreign defendant deprived of rights under laws of his own country - Effect - R.S.C., Order 11.