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Ceval International Ltd v Cefetra BV - Court of Appeal (Evans, Peter Gibson and Henry LJJ) - 23 November 1995
The issue in this appeal was whether clause 20 of a bill of lading form in widespread use obliged the receiver of goods discharged from the carrying vessel to pay the costs of discharge for that part of the discharging operation, namely, from the..
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06 January 1996
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422 - 06 January 1996
Kuwait Oil Tanker & Co SAK and Anr v Al Bader and Ors - Court of Appeal (Beldam, Hobhouse and Aldous LJJ) - 27 November 1995
The plaintiffs brought proceedings against three defendants alleging that they had been defrauded of a sum exceeding US$75 million between 1986 and 1992. The plaintiffs obtained a Mareva injunction ex parte
from Cresswell J. The first and second..
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06 January 1996
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422 - 06 January 1996
The Sanko Steamship Co Ltd and Grandslam Enterprise Corporation v. Sumitomo Australia Ltd & Ors - Federal Court of Australia (Sheppard J.) - 29 November 1995.
In February 1991 the bulk carrier Sanko Harvest sank after grounding on a reef in the Recherche Archipelago near Esperance, Western Australia whilst on passage from Tampa, Florida, with a cargo of phosphate. The ship had been bareboat chartered to..
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06 January 1996
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422 - 06 January 1996
London Arbitration 1/96
The tribunal was asked to determine as a preliminary issue the extent to which, if at all, the charterers’ speed and consumption claims were time-barred under section 3(6) of US COGSA, which had been incorporated into the relevant time..
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06 January 1996
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422 - 06 January 1996
Semco Salvage & Marine Pte Ltd v Lancer Navigation Co Ltd (The “Nagasaki Spirit) - Court of Appeal (Staughton, Evans and Swinton Thomas LJJ) - 21 December 1995
On the evening of 19 September 1992 the crude oil tanker Nagasaki Spirit
collided with the container ship Ocean Blessing
in the northern part of the Malacca Straits. About 12,000 tonnes of Nagasaki Spirit
’s cargo were released into the sea..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996
Egon Oldendorff v Liberia Corporation - QBD (Com Ct)(Clarke J) - 16 November 1995
The plaintiffs were a German commercial partnership and the defendants were a Japanese corporation. The plaintiffs claimed damages for breach of a contract said to have been made for the 10 year charter by them of two Panamax bulk carriers, which..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996
Morewitz v The West of England Shipowners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association (Luxembourg) - US Court of Appeals (11th Circuit)(Carnes and Barkett Ct JJ and Floyd R Gibson Senr Ct J) - 6 September 1995
The administrator of estates of seamen aboard the vessel Imbros
which disappeared at sea brought a direct action against the vessel’s English insurers seeking to enforce underlying wrongful death judgments against the vessel’s managing..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996
Tbilisi Shipping Co Ltd v Pemex Refinacion - Before John P Besman, Lawrence J Jacobson and Pieter L M Vismans, Chair - 5 December 1995
The vessel Tbilisi
was chartered under a Texacotime 2 timecharter. The charterers alleged that during the discharge of cargo at Guaymas, Mexico on 14 December 1992, parcels of jetfuel lead-free gasoline and diesel oil became comingled and..
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20 January 1996
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423 - 20 January 1996