Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

This was another matter arising out of the abortive sale of the vessel Messianiaki Tolmi in 1980. (See e.g. LMLN 97 - 21 July 1983.) A London arbitration had decided that the buyers had deliberately acted so as to put themselves in the position of..

The problem at the heart of this case was that some time after a charterparty had been signed and put into effect, the charterers realized that the terms of an important clause were different to what they thought had been agreed during the..

The plaintiffs’ fishing trawler J E Kenney was insured by the defendant underwriters. In May 1975 she filled with seawater and sank alongside a wharf at Riverport, Nova Scotia. The weather was fair and the water calm. There was no unusual..

The Federal Court was asked to rule on a question of law. The assumed facts were that a vessel was delayed at a loading berth due to mechanical difficulties as a result of owners’ negligence. The plaintiffs were the charterers of four other..

The plaintiffs chartered the vessel Dien Danielsen from the defendant owners under a Gencon form which contained a London arbitration clause. The present proceedings were brought by the plaintiffs not as charterers, but as holders of a bill of..