Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "CALLIOPE"

[1970] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 84

ADMIRALTY DIVISION

Before Mr. Justice Brandon, sitting with Captain D. A. G. Dickens and Captain F. W. White, Elder Brethren of Trinity House, as Nautical Assessors

Collision - Subsequent groundings - Whether consequence of collision - Negligence in swinging vessel in narrow river to stem tide - Alleged novus actus interveniens - Whether Court entitled to sub-apportion liability-"Damage" and "loss"-Maritime Conventions Act, 1911, sect. 1. Damages - Remoteness - Novus actus interveniens - Consequential loss-Whether subsequent negligence necessarily breaks chain of causation - Inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and contributory negligence-"Last opportunity" rule-Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act, 1945, sect. 1.

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