Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Shipbuilding - Defective repairs - Arbitration - Serious irregularity - Whether defence relied upon by arbitrator raised in arbitration - Error of law - Whether contract exempted shipyard from liability - Arbitration Act 1996, sections 68 and 69

Contract for construction of a luxury yacht - Joint venture - Whether the yard repudiated the contract - Whether loans by the buyer to the yard formed part of the purchase price - Whether the yard's inability to arrange self-supporting finance was a force majeure event entitling the buyer to delay payment of instalments - Whether the buyer was entitled to transfer of title - Whether the yard was entitled to terminate for the buyer's default

Charterparty - Arbitration - Freezing order - Whether order was justified - Risk of dissipation of assets - Whether order should be discharged for delay or non-disclosure - Variation of order

Charterparty - Amended NYPE 1993 form - Time charter trip Terneuzen, Netherlands to Jacksonville, US - Whether the owners were in breach of clause 8 when the master decided on safety grounds to cease following the charterers' recommended route via the Pentland Firth and to turn back and proceed through the English Channel - Whether the master's decision was justified and one which he was expressly permitted to take under the terms of the charterparty - Whether the vessel was off-hire by putting back or deviating