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Mahavir Minerals Ltd v Cho Yang Shipping Co Ltd (The ”MC Pearl”) - QBD (Admlty Ct)(Rix J) - 25 February 1997
During the course of a voyage from Kandla in India to Dubai it was alleged that the container vessel MC Pearl
developed a list and lost 12 containers overboard. Salvage services were subsequently provided to the vessel. The cargo owners brought an..
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15 March 1997
Appeared in issue:
453 - 15 March 1997
Banque Worms v Owners of the ship ”Maule” and Anr - Privy Council (Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Lloyd, Lord Hope, Lord Hutton and Sir John Balcombe) - 24 February 1997
The vessel Maule
was registered at Limassol in Cyprus. She was mortgaged by her owners to the plaintiff bank in the form required by Cyprus law, which was the same as the Merchant Shipping Act 1894. The owners of the Maule
were one of three..
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15 March 1997
Appeared in issue:
453 - 15 March 1997
Reefer and General Shipping Co Inc v Great White Fleet Ltd (The ”Kinaros V”) - US Court of Appeals (Cardamone and Winter Ct JJ and Ward DJ) - 12 February 1997
The plaintiff shipowners chartered their ocean-going refrigerated cargo vessel Kinaros V
to the defendants. The charterparty contained the following clause (”the Breakdown Clause”):
”If, during the term of this Charter, the vessel..
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15 March 1997
Appeared in issue:
453 - 15 March 1997
4 No 1 Douglaston Manor Inc v Bahrakis and Ors - New York Court of Appeals - 11 February 1997
The plaintiff owned sections of both shorelines of the Salmon River in Oswego County and the riverbed in between. It traced its title back to a conveyance from the pristine State of New York in 1792. The issue was whether the plaintiff’s..
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15 March 1997
Appeared in issue:
453 - 15 March 1997