Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The issue in this case concerned the construction of Article IV, rule 5 of the 1924 Hague Rules. The Article provided that unless the nature and value of the goods had been declared before shipment and inserted in the bill of lading, the carrier..

This was a preliminary point of law as to whether the plaintiff buyers were entitled to damages for wrongful repudiation by the defendant sellers of a contract whereby the sellers agreed to supply to the buyers a quantity of sulphur fuel oil on..

The issue in this case was whether the owner of goods damaged by a carrier under the Carriage by Air Act 1961 and the Warsaw Convention has a right of action against the carrier or whether the right of action was limited to the consignor and..

The issue in this arbitration concerned the construction of clause 17(b) of the Norgrain form of charter, which provides: “Waiting for berth” If the vessel is prevented from entering the commercial limits of the . . . discharging port ...

The plaintiffs were insurers and re-insurers. The defendants carried on a similar business until 23 August 1985 when they went into voluntary liquidation. Prior to the defendants’ liquidation a number of Excess Loss Re-insurance Agreements..

The plaintiff was a Panamanian corporation and the defendant was a Spanish insurance company. The defendant applied under Order 12, rule 8 to set aside the writ and its service out of the jurisdiction. Leggatt J. granted the defendant’s..