Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

This appeal arose out of a dispute between the owners and charterers of the Baleares . The ship failed to reach the loading point by the cancelling date and on the following day the charterers cancelled the fixture, without prejudice to claims for..

This action arose from the loss at sea of a consignment of electronic goods carried on the deck of the vessel The Duke of Yare on a voyage from Scheveningen to Great Yarmouth and which were swept overboard in the great gales of October 1987. The..

Atlas, the claimants in arbitration proceedings, had obtained a Mareva injunction against Avalon, the respondents. On 20 December 1990 Phillips J. varied the injunction to provide that Avalon should be entitled to draw from the frozen funds..

This case raised the question whether admiralty jurisdiction extended to claims arising from agency contracts. In Minturn v. Maynard 17 (H.o.w.) 477 (1855) it was held that an agent who had advanced funds for repairs and supplies necessary for a..