Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

St Paul Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v Dargan and Edwards (joint liquidators of Ballast plc and Mott MacDonald Ltd [2006] EWHC 3189 (Ch)

Scottish & Newcastle International Ltd v Othon Ghalanos Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1750

This is the question confronted, first, by an experienced LMAA tribunal and then, on appeal from the arbitration award, by Christopher Clarke J in a time charterparty dispute involving Transfield Shipping (the charterer) and Mercator Shipping (the shipowner) in Transfield Shipping Inc of Panama v Mercator Shipping Inc of Monrovia [2006] EWHC 3030 (Comm).