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BUNGE SA v PAN OCEAN CO LTD (THE "SAGAR RATAN")
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 1
Charterparty (time) – Off-hire clause – Vessel crew testing positive for Covid-19 upon arrival – Risk of quarantine – Vessel sailing to replace crew – Whether off hire – BIMCO Infectious or Contagious Diseases Clause for Time Charter Parties 2015.
JP MORGAN SECURITIES PLC AND OTHERS v VTB BANK PJSC
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 15
Arbitration – Anti-suit injunction – Whether contracting party could obtain injunction to prevent judicial proceedings against affiliates – Contractual anti-suit injunction – Vexatious and oppressive basis for injunction – Anti-enforcement injunction – Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
LORD MARINE CO SA v VIMEKSIM SRB DOO
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 52
Charterparty (voyage) – Bills of lading – Lien on cargo – Freight unpaid – Cargo discharged into storage – Shipowner seeking order for sale of cargo – Exercise of lien in support of arbitration – Property “the subject of the proceedings” – Arbitration Act 1996, section 44.
TECNICAS REUNIDAS SAUDIA FOR SERVICES & CONTRACTING CO LTD v PETROLEUM CHEMICALS AND MINING CO LTD
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 59
Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Whether parties had agreed to ad hoc or ICC arbitration – Failure by appellant to raise jurisdictional arbitration on time – Arbitrators ruling that objection failed – Whether appellant waived right to appeal – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 30, 31, 67 and 73.
V AND ANOTHER v K
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 90
Arbitration – Serious irregularity – Apparent bias – Disclosure of relationship with solicitors – LMAA Advice on Ethics – Extension of time for service – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 33 and 68 – CPR 3.9 and 6.15(2).
DELOS SHIPHOLDING SA AND OTHERS v ALLIANZ GLOBAL CORPORATE AND SPECIALTY SE AND OTHERS
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 117
Insurance (marine) – War and allied risks – Detention – Effect of exclusion for customs or quarantine regulations and similar arrests – Non-disclosure – Knowledge and materiality – Insurance Act 2015.
KFW IPEX-BANK GMBH v OWNER OF THE VESSEL "WORLD DREAM"
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 137
Admiralty – Mortgagee's interest – Judicial sale of floating casino – Payment out of proceeds of judicial sale – Whether gaming equipment included in ship mortgage – Meaning of “ship” – Meaning of vessel's appurtenances – Meaning of vessel's “belongings”.
MSC MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING CO SA v CONTI 11 CONTAINER SCHIFFAHRTS-GMBH & CO KG MS (THE “MSC FLAMINIA”)
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 150
Admiralty – Limitation of liability – Tonnage limitation – Shipowner – Charterer – Shipowner claiming against charterer in respect of losses suffered by shipowner following casualty – Limitation fund – Consequential losses – Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, article 2.
COSCO SHIPPING SPECIALIZED CARRIERS CO LTD v PT OKI PULP & PAPER MILLS AND ANOTHER
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 173
Anti-suit injunction – Damage from vessel allision with bridge – Claim in tort in Indonesian courts – Bills of lading incorporating Singapore arbitration clause – Whether claim “arising out of or in connection with” bills of lading – Applicable test.
ERONAT v CNPC INTERNATIONAL (CHAD) LTD AND ANOTHER
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 196
Arbitration – Appeal on point of law – Extension of time – Summary enforcement – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 54, 55, 56, 70 and 79.
RTI LTD AND ANOTHER v OWH SE IL
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 202
Arbitration – Serious irregularity – Application to arbitrators to admit serious irregularity – Running of time – Whether time should be extended – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 67, 68 and 80.
SEA CONSORTIUM PTE LTD (TRADING AS X-PRESS FEEDERS) AND OTHERS v BENGAL TIGER LINE PTE LTD AND OTHERS
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 209
Admiralty – Limitation of liability – Tonnage limitation – Meaning of “shipowner” – Meaning of “charterer” – Slot charterers’ right to limit liability – Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, as amended, article 1(2).
STAR HYDRO POWER LTD v NATIONAL TRANSMISSION AND DESPATCH CO LTD
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 215
Arbitration – Anti-suit injunction – Challenge to English award in Pakistan – New York Convention.
AYHAN SEZER YAG VE GIDA ENDUSTRISI TICARET LIMITED SIRKET v AGROINVEST SA
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 229
Contract – Sale of rape meal and soybean meal – Buyer withdrawing from contract – Anticipatory repudiatory breach – Event of default – Determination of date of default – Arbitration – GAFTA – Default clause – GAFTA Contract No 100, clause 23 – Arbitration Act 1996, section 69.
CARMICHAEL RAIL NETWORK PTY LTD v BBC CHARTERING CARRIERS GMBH & CO KG (THE "BBC NILE")
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 246
Contracts (bills of lading) – Damage to cargo – Carrier's liability – Arbitration clause in bill of lading providing for London arbitration – Whether arbitration clause diminishing carrier's liability for loss or damage to goods otherwise than as provided for in Australian Hague Rules – Whether void under article 3(8) of Australian Hague Rules – Carrier undertaking that Australian Hague Rules to apply in arbitration – Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth), sections 4, 7, 8 and 9, schedules 1 and 1A, article 3(8) – International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth), sections 7 and 39.
HAPAG-LLOYD AG v SKYROS MARITIME CORPORATION AND ANOTHER
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 260
Charterparty (time) – Damages – Vessels redelivered late under time charterparties – Owners having sold vessels and committed to redelivering to new owners upon redelivery – Measure of damages – Whether owners entitled to substantive or nominal damages for late redelivery – Quantum meruit – User damages – Negotiating damages – Loss of opportunity – Res inter alios acta – NYPE form – Arbitration Act 1996, section 69.
BURROWS v THE SHIP "MERLION"
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 281
Admiralty – Ship arrest – Jurisdiction – Vessel agreed to be part trade for new vessel under construction – Receiving party entering into liquidation – Director of receiving party purporting to transfer ownership to third party – Application to strike out claims forming the basis of arrest – Proprietary maritime claims – Trust – Misleading or deceptive conduct – Conversion – Detinue – Combination of in rem and in personam claims – Application to strike out – Application for summary dismissal – Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth), sections 3, 4(2)(a), 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 19.
OWNERS OF OR OTHER PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE CARGO LATELY LADEN ONBOARD "JEIL CRYSTAL" v OWNERS OF THE VESSEL “JEIL CRYSTAL” (THE "JEIL CRYSTAL")
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 299
Contracts (bills of lading) – Switch bills of lading – Trade finance bank returning the bills of lading to its customer to be switched – Whether bank a lawful holder – Rights of suit under the contract of carriage – Wrongful arrest – Grossly negligent conduct such as to imply malice – Bank failing to establish it had bills of lading in its possession before the arrest – Bills of Lading Act 1992.
STOURNARAS STYLIANOS MONOPROSOPI EPE v MAERSK A/S
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 323
Contracts (bills of lading) – Straight bills of lading – Carrier issuing bills of lading based on shipper's declared weight – Actual weight significantly lower than shipper's declared weight – Weighing and verification of weight of container – Verified gross mass (VGM) – Carrier's reliance on shipper's representation – Whether bills ought to have been claused – Whether negligent misstatement – Whether carrier had a duty of care – International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (“SOLAS”) – Resolution MSC.380 (94) – Hague Rules, article III rule 3(c).
DAN-BUNKERING (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD v THE SHIP "YANGTZE FORTUNE" (NO 3)
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 339
Admiralty – Judicial sale – Application for leave to claim out of time upon the fund constituted by the proceeds of judicial sale – Liability of the fund for demise charterer's debts – Demise charterparty terminated before judicial sale of ship – Applicant having elected not to take steps in the proceedings – Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth), sections 3(1), 17, 18, 19 and 24.
DAN-BUNKERING (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD v THE SHIP "YANGTZE FORTUNE"
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 347
Admiralty – In rem proceedings – Claims against fund following judicial sale of vessel – Claim by registered owner of vessel in respect of hire owed by demise charterer – Priorities – Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth), sections 3(2), 4(3)(d), (f), (m) and (w), 18 and 24 – International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth), section 8(3) – Admiralty Rules 1988 (Cth), rule 31.
EVANS AND ANOTHER v AIR CANADA
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 368
Carriage of passengers by air – Contract of carriage – Standard terms and conditions – Liability rules of Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 1999 (Montreal Convention) expressly incorporated – Defence in article 21(2) of Montreal Convention – Waiver of defence limiting extent of passengers’ recovery of damages for bodily injury allegedly caused by turbulence – Montreal Convention, articles 17, 21, 25 – Civil Aviation (Carriers’ Liability) Act 1959 (Cth).
SD REBEL BV AND ANOTHER v ELISE TANKSCHIFFAHRT KG
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 380
Admiralty – Salvage – Tug under way coming to assistance of grounded vessel – Master of assisted vessel signing Certificate of Safe Delivery providing for London jurisdiction – Tug and crew seeking salvage – Salvage services – Measure of award – Jurisdiction.
CAMPEAU v GOTTEX REAL ASSET FUND 1 (OE) WASTE SARL
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 389
Jurisdiction – Share purchase agreement – Exclusive jurisdiction clause – Whether clause extended to third parties – Service out of the jurisdiction – CPR 6.33(2B) – Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
MITSUI OSK LINES LTD AND ANOTHER v THE SHIP "YANGZE 22"
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 404
Admiralty – Arrest – Application for release of vessel from arrest – Security for release – Letter of undertaking – Whether adequate security – Condition for expiry in the event shipowners establish limitation fund “in any jurisdiction” – Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Act 1989 (Cth), section 6 – Admiralty Rules 1988 (Cth), rule 52 – Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, as amended.
RÉSEAU DE TRANSPORT D'ÉLECTRICITÉ v COSTAIN LTD
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 409
Admiralty – Limitation of liability – Whether party entitled to limit liability as a party to which article 1(4) applied – Res judicata – Cause of action estoppel – Abuse of process – Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, article 1(4).
VXJ v FY AND OTHERS
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 428
Arbitration – Application to court for disclosure and photographing of documents – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 43 and 44(2)(c).
AFRICAN DISTRIBUTION COMPANY SARL v AASTAR TRADING PTE LTD
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 443
Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Serious irregularity – Use of generic email address for arbitration documents – Claimant asserting that no notice of arbitration received – Whether time for challenge should be extended – Arbitration Act 1996, sections 67, 69, 70, 72, 76 and 80.
DA HUI SHIPPING (PTE) LTD (IN CREDITORS’ VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) v AN RONG SHIPPING PTE LTD (IN LIQUIDATION)
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 473
Ship mortgages – Ship mortgages granted to lender – Borrower having repaid more than its share of bank loan – Contribution from co-debtor – Subrogation – Subrogation to extinguished securities in equity – Rights following ship arrest and sale – Restitution – Unjust enrichment – Mercantile Law Amendment Act 1856 (2020 Rev Ed), section 2.
YACHT MANAGEMENT CO LTD v GORDON
[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 485
Jurisdiction – Territorial jurisdiction – Seafarer resident in UK but working on yachts outside UK – Meaning of “tours of duty” – Meaning of “duties under the contract” – Meaning of “base” – Employment Rights Act 1996 – Equality Act 2010.