Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty - Payment of hire - Whether vessel off hire - Permissible deductions from hire - Requirement for the consent of the owners

Contract (bill of lading) - Time bar - Extension of time - Bill of lading consignee obtaining time bar extension from "owner" - Litigation commenced against registered owner within time - Demise charterer joined out of time - Registered owner's defence that it was not a party to the contract of carriage - Demise charterer's time bar defence - Estoppel - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth), section8 and schedule1A - Hague-Visby Rules, articles 1 and 3 - Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

Charterparty - Unpaid hire - Termination - Obligation to deregister vessel - Law governing deregistration - Law governing obligation to deregister vessel - 4th Edition of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration Rules - Expedited procedure - Declaratory relief

Arbitration - Slot purchase agreement - Jurisdiction - Whether parties had entered into arbitration agreement - Express agreement - Implied agreement - Estoppel - Arbitration Act 1996, section 67

Insurance (marine) - Cargo claim - Insurable interest - Interest in part of identified bulk cargo - Marine Insurance Act 1906, section 5

Admiralty - Arrest of vessel - Whether arrest conferred in personam jurisdiction over owners - Supply of bunkers - Whether maritime lien could be enforced against sistership