Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The issue was whether the writ in the action had been duly served on the defendants. The defendants were a bank incorporated in Korea and concerned in import-export banking and financing. Although the defendant company conducted its main business..

The vessel Prince George had been sold for $1,000,000 which sum was paid into court. The claimants were 13 crew members. Substantial wage claims had already been paid out of the sum in court in respect of wages. The claimants sought to be paid..

The defendant insurance company had insured the plaintiff’s fishing trawler Morning Star under two marine insurance policies in identical terms. The risks followed the standard Lloyd’s form, including the phrase “arrests,..

Hire was payable at a stated rate per calendar month, commending on and from the day of the vessel’s delivery into service under the charter, and “at and after the same rate for any part of a month”. The ship was delivered on 23..

The vessel was chartered for a time-chartered trip from the Far East to a Sardinian port. She was described as capable of “15/15.5 knots on 52(1500) + 2.5 diesel oil or without guarantee about 13.5/14 knots on 37 tons IFO + 2 tons diesel oil,..

The claimant shipowners brought arbitration proceedings against the P. & I. Club in which they were entered, contending that the Club had maintained excessively large estimates in respect of cargo damage claims, and that as a result the owners..