Lloyd's Law Reports

Carriage (bills of lading) – Cargo of timber discharged against letters of indemnity – Alleged misdelivery – Time bar in Hague-Visby Rules – Meaning of “suit” – Deck carriage – Meaning of “which by the contract of carriage is stated as being carried on deck” – Hague-Visby Rules, articles I(c), III rule 6.

Admiralty – Jurisdiction – Actions in rem – Claimant seeking declaration in non-admiralty proceedings that it was subrogated to rights against vessel owner – Vessel judicially sold in separate admiralty proceedings – Claim against sale proceeds – Variation of priority order – Subrogation.

Contracts (bills of lading) – Misdelivery – Delivery of cargo without presentation of bills of lading – Bank as lawful holder of bill of lading – Letters of indemnity replacing bills of lading in payment terms of letters of credit – Whether bill of lading holder would have consented to delivery – Ratification – Waiver – Damages – Causation – Quantum – Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, sections 2 and 5.