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The Deichland - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) (Sheen J.)
- 19 July 1988
In January 1986 the plaintiffs’ cargo of steel coils were carried on board the vessel Deichland from Glasgow to La Spezia. At the time, the vessel was on demise charter to the defendants.
The plaintiffs claimed that their cargo..
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13 August 1988
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229 - 13 August 1988
C. W. Rome and another v. Punjab National Bank - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Hirst J.) - 6 July 1988
The plaintiff underwriters sued for a declaration that two policies of insurance, under which the defendant bank was the assured had been validly avoided, and also claiming repayment of a sum in excess of $28 million which had been paid pursuant to..
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13 August 1988
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229 - 13 August 1988
Richco International Ltd. v. International Industrial Food Co. SAL - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Hirst J.) - 4 July 1988
By a contract on GAFTA 64 terms, including normal GAFTA arbitration, the plaintiff sellers sold to the defendant buyers a quantity of wheat f.o.b. payment against documents, destination Syrian Ports. The cargo was loaded on board the vessel on 29..
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13 August 1988
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229 - 13 August 1988
Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Chambers judgment) - July 1988
The plaintiff, a bank in the Federal Republic of Germany, commenced proceedings in Germany against the defendant, a resident in the Federal Republic, consequent upon the defendant’s failure to repay an unauthorised overdraft. The proceedings..
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13 August 1988
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229 - 13 August 1988
The Rosa S - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) (Hobhouse J.) - 21 July 1988
The issue in this case concerned the construction of Article IV, rule 5 of the 1924 Hague Rules. The Article provided that unless the nature and value of the goods had been declared before shipment and inserted in the bill of lading, the carrier..
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988
Transpetrol Ltd. v. Transol Olieprodukten B.V. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Phillips J.) - 13 April 1988
This was a preliminary point of law as to whether the plaintiff buyers were entitled to damages for wrongful repudiation by the defendant sellers of a contract whereby the sellers agreed to supply to the buyers a quantity of sulphur fuel oil on..
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988
Gatewhite Ltd. v. Iberia Lineas Aereas de Espana Sociedad - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Gatehouse J.) - 29 July 1988
The issue in this case was whether the owner of goods damaged by a carrier under the Carriage by Air Act 1961 and the Warsaw Convention has a right of action against the carrier or whether the right of action was limited to the consignor and..
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988
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The issue in this arbitration concerned the construction of clause 17(b) of the Norgrain form of charter, which provides:
“Waiting for berth”
If the vessel is prevented from entering the commercial limits of the . . . discharging port ...
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988
Home and Overseas Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Mentor Insurance Co. (U.K.) Ltd. - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Hirst J.) - 28 July 1988
The plaintiffs were insurers and re-insurers. The defendants carried on a similar business until 23 August 1985 when they went into voluntary liquidation.
Prior to the defendants’ liquidation a number of Excess Loss Re-insurance Agreements..
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988
Seashell Shipping Corporation v. Mutualidad de Seguros del Instituto Nacional de Industria - Court of Appeal (May, Parker and Stocker L.JJ.) - 27 July 1988
The plaintiff was a Panamanian corporation and the defendant was a Spanish insurance company. The defendant applied under Order 12, rule 8 to set aside the writ and its service out of the jurisdiction. Leggatt J. granted the defendant’s..
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27 August 1988
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230 - 27 August 1988