Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The House of Lords has dismissed BTP Tioxide’s appeal and given important guidance for judges exercising their discretion under the 1979 Arbitration Act in giving leave to appeal from an award by a commercial arbitrator. This issue of the..

The plaintiffs were in the business of leasing freight containers, a number of which were leased to O. Ltd. in 1972. In 1975 O. Ltd. went bankrupt leaving the containers scattered over the Far East. The plaintiffs took steps to recover their..

In 1977 the plaintiffs chartered the vessel Scaptrade from the defendant owners on the Shelltime 3 form which contained the usual provision for withdrawal in default of payment of hire. Hire was due on the 8th of each month. By 1979 the market had..

Mr. Justice Staughton has followed the Master of the Rolls in The Splendid Sun [1981] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 29 in ruling that there can be frustration of an arbitration agreement where it is delayed by the mutual default of both parties. His lordship..

The plaintiffs were the consignees of goods which had been shipped from Genoa to Sydney in the vessel Novovyatsk . After being discharged by the defendant stevedores the goods were left on the wharf to await collection by the plaintiffs. During this..

The plaintiffs were consignees of cargo, part of which was never received. The goods had been shipped in the vessel Carola Reith from Antwerp to Montreal and although no explanation was given for the loss, there was no evidence that the shipowners..