Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

18 December 1987 The vessel Alexion Hope was insured for U.S.$4,750,000. The benefit of the policy was assigned to the plaintiffs as mortgagees. In October 1982 a serious fire occurred in the engine room. The owners gave notice of abandonment,..

On the evening of 6 March 1987 the cross-channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise sailed from Zeebrugge for Dover. A few minutes after leaving harbour she capsized in shallow water. Some 150 passengers and 38 members of the crew lost their..

Cargo owners brought separate proceedings against shipowners for damage to their cargo. The actions were consolidated. The shipowners served a defence which included inter alia the plea that the damage had been caused without the actual fault or..

The vessel Ever Spleandour was chartered under a charterparty which contained a Centrocon Arbitration Clause which read: All disputes from time to time arising out of this contract shall . . . be referred to the final arbitrament of two arbitrators..