Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The Court of Appeal has disagreed with the Umpire and the Judge at first instance as to the effect of clause 13 of the Baltime charterparty. Clause 13 gives a wide exception in favour of owners. It provides: The owners only to be responsible for..

For many years Tate & Lyle had operated a sugar refinery on the north bank of the Thames up-stream of the Woolwich ferry. In 1922 the Port of London Authority (PLA) authorised Tate & Lyle to construct a jetty, known as the refined sugar..

The plaintiff owners of the 32 ft motor yacht Mata Hari claimed against the defendant underwriters under a marine insurance policy after the vessel had sunk at her moorings in Piraeus during a storm. The underwriters (representing syndicates 691..

The vessel was chartered on a Baltimore Grain form to carry a cargo of wheat from the United States to Bombay. Clause 26 provided: Vessel to tender notice of readiness to discharge to charterer or his agents during ordinary office hours on a weekday..

The appellant was a South African printer and lithographer. In 1979 he purchased a printing machine from Norway and effected a policy of marine insurance with the respondent in Johannesburg to cover the machine for its voyage to South Africa. The..