Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiff was employed as a deck hand on the tug boat Warringa which was owned by the defendant, Waratah Towage. On 4 July 1984 whilst the tug boat was engaged in assisting the vessel Canberra Maru , the plaintiff was injured when he slipped..

12 June 1992 The plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant shipowners damages for the loss of a portion of a cargo of raw bulk sugar shipped from Guyana to Toronto aboard the defendant’s vessel Cisco . Raw sugar was traded on the basis of..

13 November 1992 One of the issues in this appeal was whether there was in a towage contract an implied obligation on the part of the tugowner to make the tug seaworthy at the commencement of the voyage or, where the voyage was carried out in..

The defendant insurers had issued a marine insurance policy to shippers of a cargo of sulphur. During the course of the voyage the sulphur caused massive corrosion damage to the holds, tank tops and bulkheads of the vessel. The shipowners sued inter..

The plaintiffs were the administrators of the estates of deceased trainee crew members of the sailing vessel Marques which sank on 3 June 1984 during the Cutty Sark International Tall Ships Race from Bermuda to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The plaintiffs..