Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charters applied to the Court under s.1, Arbitration Act 1979, for leave to appeal against an arbitration award. The dispute had arisen under a charter-party on the NYPE form under which Oinoussian Virtue had been time chartered for a trip from..

A Mareva injunction had been granted earlier in respect of the defendants’ assets (see Issue No. 12 LMLN). The defendants, invoking The Angel Bell [1980] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 632, principle, now sought an order varying the injunction to..

The Court of Appeal have decided that the power of the High Court under s.45(1), Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925, includes a wide power to grant a Mareva injunction whether or not the party subject to the injunction is..

On Feb. 13, 1981 Mr. Justice Robert Goff granted the plaintiffs a Mareva injunction in an action for breach of contract. The plaintiffs had requested that the injunction specify money in a named bank. The injunction was granted on condition that the..

This was an appeal from an order, made by Mr. Justice Lloyd during a trial, for the discovery of the whole of a privileged document. Part of it had already been inadvertantly disclosed by counsel in opening the action. The document in question was a..

A bill of lading issued by carriers acknowledged shipment aboard Banglar Mita of 132,000 bags of skimmed milk in apparent good order and condition. At Chittagong, the discharge port, the carriers instructed Captain Raham to survey certain defective..

1. The facts were as follows:    (a)   During discharge a boiler leak was discovered at 20 30 on March 4. This defect constituted a “breakdown of machinery” under the off-hire..