Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

On 19 October 1979 the vessel Alaskan Trader was chartered by the disponent owners to the charterers for a period of 24 months 15 days more or less. She was an old vessel having been built in 1954. On 19 October 1980, after she had been on the..

In this application Leggatt J. had to consider the circumstances in which solicitors are entitled to exercise a lien on documents in respect of costs unpaid by their client. In Gamlen Chemical Co. v. Rochem Ltd. [1980] 1 W.L.R. 614, the Court of..

The plaintiffs were the successors in title of a German company (referred to as GfG) which purchased a quantity of Sudanese groundnut expellers from Pagco S.A. of Geneva. It was a condition of the sale contract that the goods would be shipped not..

The issues for consideration by the Privy Council were the dates of the commencement of the cause of action in general average cases. The bills of lading provided that general average was to be adjusted and settled according to the York-Antwerp..

A claim of a tug owner for a decree of limitation of liability arose out of a collision between a barge in tow of his tug and the supporting pier of a railway bridge swing span in the Fraser River. The Master of the tug contended that on his..

In a recent case before the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana the District Judge awarded $10,000 attorneys’ fees against a Jones Act seaman’s employer after the jury had found the employer had acted wilfully and..