Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Insurance (liability) - Maritime construction project - Co-insurance - Effect of settlement reached without consent of insurers - Meaning of "Existing Property" exclusion - Quantum

Shipping law - Collision - Limitation - Whether costs of wreck removal were subject to limitation - Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, articles2 and18 - Merchant Shipping (Limitation of Shipowners Liability) Ordinance, article 15

Charterparty - Failure to provide cargo - Repudiatory breach of contract - Compensatory damages - Arbitration - Non-participating respondent - No response to notice of arbitration - No statement of defence - Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration Rules, 4th Edition, rule 28.3(k) - Singapore International Arbitration Act 1994 - UNCITRAL Model Law, article 25 - Power of tribunal to make award notwithstanding failure or refusal of any party to comply with rules, written orders or written directions, or exercise its rights to present case - Arbitrator - No appointment of arbitrator by respondent - Sole arbitrator to be arbitrator appointed by claimant.