Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Voyage charterparty containing London arbitration clause – Demurrage dispute settled by email exchange – Charterers failing to pay sum agreed – Owners bringing arbitration proceedings claiming sum agreed under settlement agreement – No provision for arbitration in settlement agreement – Whether arbitrators had jurisdiction over claim to recover agreed settlement sum

Sale of goods – Laytime – Contract for sale of coal on delivered ex ship terms – Notice of readiness tendered to port agents – Sellers failing to comply with condition precedent for service of NOR – Whether buyers estopped from insisting on compliance with condition precedent – Time of commencement of laytimeAgency – Whether fact that port agents were “notify party” under bill of lading constituted them agents of buyers

Charterparty – Vessel captured by pirates in Arabian Sea – Whether charter hire suspended during period of captivity