Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The Court of Appeal has declared that, although an arbitrator has power to impose conditions for the granting of a special case, where there is a clear-cut and fully arguable point of law on which a great deal of money depends it is only in a very..

The plaintiffs were the owners of 293 sides of pork which were being carried from Poole to Cherbourg in January 1979 on the vessel Vechtstroom under a document described as a Commercial Vehicle Movement Order. The vehicle in which the goods were..

The plaintiff, a New Zealand ship repairer, agreed to carry out certain repair work to the vessel Militobi , owned and operated by the defendant government. The plaintiff carried out the work at Auckland but claimed that he had not been paid the..

This appeal arose out of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill off the coast of France on 16 March 1978. Amoco were the owners of the Amoco Cadiz. Bugsier were the owners of the salvage tug Pacific. On 16 March 1978 the Amoco Cadiz suffered a complete..

Astro agreed to sell their vessel Messianiaki Tomi to Southland to be broken up. The purchase price was to be paid by a confirmed irrevocable letter of credit valid until 30 October 1980. The agreement, which was governed by English law and..