Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

In non-Admiralty cases Order 22, rule 3 of the Rules of the Supreme Court provides that were money is paid into court by a defendant the plaintiff may within 21 days thereafter accept the money in satisfaction of his cause of action. Order 75, rule..

The Talisman , a 75 foot motor fishing vessel, sank at 2.45 am on 31 May 1980 in calm seas 50 miles west of the Shetland Islands. The vessel’s insurers refused to pay the owner/skipper’s claim on the ground that he had failed to use..

The plaintiff cargo receivers claimed against the defendant carrier in respect of damage to a printing press carried onboard the vessel Atlantic Corona from England to North Carolina. The goods were stowed on deck and therefore the US COGSA did not..

This was an appeal from the decision of Yeldham J. in which he had held that the limitation sum in Article IV, rule 5 of the Hague Rules of £100 was, in accordance with the reference to “gold value” in Article IX of the Hague Rules,..

The vessel was chartered on the Asbatankvoy form. Clause 8 provided that charterers were to pay demurrage “for all time that loading and discharging and used laytime as elsewhere herein provided exceeds the allowed laytime elsewhere herein..