Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Arbitration - Anti-enforcement injunction - Interim order preserving assets - Senior Courts Act 1981, section 37 - Arbitration Act 1996, section 44

Admiralty - Ship arrest - Ship arrested based on non-existent claim - Claim amended - Nature of warrant of arrest - Effect of amendment to statement of claim on warrant of arrest issued prior to amendment - Status of warrant of arrest following amendment to statement of claim - Importance of supporting affidavit

Admiralty - Limitation of liability - Tonnage limitation - Meaning of shipowner - Charterer - Limitation fund - Consequential losses - Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 as amended, article 2

Charterparty - Whether agreement concluded - Arbitration - Jurisdiction - Separability - Error of law - Arbitration Act 1996, sections 7, 67 and 69

Contract for delivery of yacht - Voyage not completed - Damage suffered by yacht - Whether curtailing voyage was the fault of the delivery company - Pre-existing defects - Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 - Bailment

Admiralty - Arrest - Ship ordered to sail under arrest to Gladstone - Application to amend orders - Vessel unable to safely reach Gladstone via route within the territorial sea - Marshal's custody of the vessel - Owners' undertaking that no point about the validity of the arrest would be taken - Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth), section 22

Admiralty - Collision - Rules of the sea - Apportionment of liability - Merchant Shipping Act 1995, section 187