Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

2 April 1981 The defendants were owners of the ship El Amria . In March 1979 she loaded a cargo of potatoes at Alexandria for carriage to the United Kingdom. The bills of lading contained a foreign jurisdiction clause the effect of which was that..

The parties entered into a contract of sale for a vessel on a Norwegian sale form with certain amendments and certain type clauses. Type clause 21 read as follows: The vessel to be delivered with class maintained free of recommendations and free of..

The respondents time-chartered a vessel from the claimant owners. Redelivery on completion of hire was to be at a safe port in South Japan not north of Tokyo Bay/Singapore range excluding North and South Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea. During the..

By a contract dated 25 September 1978 on GAFTA Form 41 the plaintiffs sold to the defendants 8,500 tons of Argentine maize already onboard the S.S. Caloric at a price of $119 per metric ton c.i.f. Beirut. The Caloric arrived off Beirut on 2..

The Court of Appeal, in a reserved judgment, has said that it is of the greatest importance that trade arbitrators working under the 1979 Arbitration Act should realize that their whole approach should be different from that previously adopted. They..

Mr. Justice Sheen has emphasized the importance of bringing actions to trial with the minimum delay. In this action, the trial took place seven years after the collision had occurred. Although as a general rule oral evidence tested by..