Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

(2008) 743 LMLN 3 The defendant freight forwarders issued bills of lading to the plaintiffs for carriage of consignments of goods from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, California. The bills named Artist Fashion as consignee and were straight,..

(2008) 743 LMLN 2(2) The plaintiff disponent owners of the vessel Global Hawk (“BHPB”) alleged that they were induced by the misleading and deceptive conduct of the first defendant shipbrokers (“Cosco”) to enter into a..

(2008) 743 LMLN 2 On 17 October 2004 the claimant boarded a British Airways Boeing 747 as a passenger to take a scheduled flight from Phoenix, Arizona to London Heathrow airport. She suffered an injury to her right knee when she slipped on a plastic..

(2008) 743 LMLN 1(2) The defendant (PDV) was the national oil company of Venezuela. It applied to set aside a worldwide freezing injunction which had been obtained by the claimant (Mobil) in the sum of US$12 billion. The freezing injunction had..

(2008) 743 LMLN 1 The defendant underwriters sought an order striking out the claimants’ action on the grounds of abuse of process and/or delay. In October 1997 the claimants’ vessel Aliki A suffered an engine failure whilst on a laden..