Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The Bank was the owner of the tug, Westminster Tyee , which was chartered to Rivtow Straits Ltd. (“Rivtow”). On 21 January 1983, while towing the barge Green Giant , the Westminster Tyee allowed the boom of a crane mounted on the deck..

This was a motion by the plaintiffs to exclude evidence of English law on three issues arising out of their claim to make the Sea Containers Group liable for breaches of various agreements between the plaintiffs and AES Ltd., an associated English..

Under a charterparty dated 23 May 1974, The Arras and The Heogh Rover performed voyages from U.S. Gulf ports to Calcutta, where they discharged by means of lightening vessels, such discharge being completed during November 1974. The charterparty..

The issue in this case was whether funds held in a solicitor’s client account and subject to the solicitor’s lien for unpaid fees were subject to a Mareva injunction, obtained at the suit of a plaintiff after an award in arbitration..

The plaintiffs were pursuing a claim ceded to them by their insured, Toyota S.A. Manufacturing Ltd., who were owners of a consignment of engines, some of which were damaged during the unloading operation, allegedly through the negligence of the..

The plaintiffs sued for damage to their shipment of steel products that allegedly occurred during a voyage on the defendants’ vessel Acadia Forest , from Antwerp to New Orleans. The defendants sought to limit their liability to $500 per..