Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs owned the Daffodil B , a vessel of 13,248 nrt. The defendants owned a cargo of fuel oil which was being carried from Milazzo, Sicily to Rotterdam. A few hours after leaving Milazzo the vessel suffered a diesel generator breakdown and..

This was a preliminary issue of law relating to the interpretation of Section 2 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967. The plaintiffs had purchased the vessel Skopas from the third defendants and now claimed that they had been misled into making the..

The issue before the Privy Council was whether, by the law of Singapore, a plaintiff in an Admiralty action in rem was entitled to avail himself of the provisions of Order 14 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1970, in order to obtain summary..

The defendants were owners of the VLCC Olympic Action which, on 8 February 1976, collided with and damaged a single point mooring buoy (the SBM) in the sea off Durban. The first plaintiffs owned the SBM, which provided berthing facilities for..

The claimants were the holders of bills of lading issued under a Baltimore Form C charter. They claimed against the respondent carriers for alleged damage to cargo during the course of the carriage. The bills of lading contained a printed clause..