Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The issue in this appeal was whether clause 20 of a bill of lading form in widespread use obliged the receiver of goods discharged from the carrying vessel to pay the costs of discharge for that part of the discharging operation, namely, from the..

The plaintiffs brought proceedings against three defendants alleging that they had been defrauded of a sum exceeding US$75 million between 1986 and 1992. The plaintiffs obtained a Mareva injunction ex parte from Cresswell J. The first and second..

In February 1991 the bulk carrier Sanko Harvest sank after grounding on a reef in the Recherche Archipelago near Esperance, Western Australia whilst on passage from Tampa, Florida, with a cargo of phosphate. The ship had been bareboat chartered to..

The tribunal was asked to determine as a preliminary issue the extent to which, if at all, the charterers’ speed and consumption claims were time-barred under section 3(6) of US COGSA, which had been incorporated into the relevant time..