Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Admiralty practice – Application by mortgagee for sale of vessels pendente lite – Mortgagee obtaining its own valuations and asking that vessels be sold at a certain price to a certain buyer – Whether court should depart from usual order that the Admiralty Marshal sell a vessel by appraisement, advertisement and inviting bids

Marine insurance – Time policy – Vessel suffering ingress of seawater in bowthruster room causing damage to engine – Negligence of crew – Whether loss proximately caused by peril of the seas – Whether loss caused by unseaworthiness of vessel – Whether insured forfeited claim by employment of fraudulent devices

Carriage of goods by sea – Cargo claim against contractual carrier – Whether charterparty terms incorporated into contract of carriage – Whether carrier in breach of duty – Whether damage caused by carrier’s want of due diligence to make vessel seaworthy – Whether transfer of liability clause rendered void by Article III Rule 8 of Hague Rules – Whether carrier responsible for proper stowage

Admiralty jurisdiction – Assignee of wages due to master and crew members bringing action in rem and arresting vessel – Whether court had in rem jurisdiction