Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Practice – Security for costs – Whether successful party to arbitration entitled to security for costs in respect of favourable costs award pending section 68 challenge by losing party – Whether successful party entitled to security for costs in respect of section 68 challenge – Whether losing party entitled to rely on equitable cross-claim on basis that it was successful party in a subsequent arbitration

Sale of ship – Norwegian Saleform 1993 – Whether term as to satisfactory quality to be implied by section 14 of Sale of Goods Act 1979

Marine insurance – Loss of Hire cover – Vessel suffering loss of hire following three breakdowns of thruster motors - Whether first breakdown caused all subsequent losses – Whether break in chain of causation – Whether one breakdown or three breakdowns for purposes of deductible

Charterparty - Off-hire - Clause 15 of NYPE form - Whether vessel off-hire during period of drifting - Whether sufficient for charterers to establish net loss of time as regards service immediately required or whether necessary to go on to establish that time was in fact lost to the chartered service