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The Lu Shan - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) (Sheen J.) - 23 May 1991
The vessel Botany Triad was damaged in a collision with the vessel Lu Shan
off the coast of South Africa on 6 December 1985. Part of Botany Triad’s
cargo of transformer oil was lost. That oil had been shipped under two bills of lading. The..
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On 2 October 1990 a Boeing 737 aircraft was hijacked in the course of a flight from Xiamen to Baiyun Airport, Guangzhou. When the aircraft eventually landed at Baiyun Airport it collided with a Boeing 707 and a Boeing 757 which were parked on an..
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The owners of the vessel chartered her on the Norgrain 1973 form for the carriage of goods from a South American port to the Soviet Black Sea or Baltic. Whilst the ship was loading in Argentina the charterers requested the owners to load an..
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The Maciej Rataj - Q.B.D. (Adm.Ct.) (Sheen J.) - 2 July 1991
In September 1988 the Polish ship Tatry
loaded a cargo of soyabean oil in Brazil for delivery at Rotterdam and Hamburg. Part of the cargo was discharged in Rotterdam on 1 October 1988; the balance was discharged at Hamburg on 4 October 1988. All..
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Corfu Navigation Co. v. Mobil Shipping Co. Ltd. (The Alpha) - Q.B.D. (Com.Ct.) (Hobhouse J.) - 14 July 1991
In August 1984 the Vessel Alpha
sailed from Abidjan bound for Ango Ango, a port in Zaire about 70 miles up the Zaire river. While she was waiting for a pilot to take her up river she went aground on the Mona Mazea Bank. While the ship’s..
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Geogas A.S. v. Trammo Gas Ltd. (The Baleares) - House of Lords (Lord Bridge, Lord Brandon, Lord Griffiths, Lord Jauncey and Lord Lowry) - 18 July 1991
This appeal arose out of a dispute between the owners and charterers of the Baleares
. The ship failed to reach the loading point by the cancelling date and on the following day the charterers cancelled the fixture, without prejudice to claims for..
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27 July 1991
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Dresser UK Ltd. and others v. Falcongate Freight Management Ltd. and others (The Duke of Yare) - Court of Appeal (Sir Stephen Brown P., Ralph Gibson and Bingham L.JJ.) - 19 July 1991
This action arose from the loss at sea of a consignment of electronic goods carried on the deck of the vessel The Duke of Yare
on a voyage from Scheveningen to Great Yarmouth and which were swept overboard in the great gales of October 1987.
The..
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Atlas Maritime Co. A.S. v. Avalon Maritime Ltd. (The Coral Rose) - Court of Appeal (Lord Donaldson M.R., Nicholls and Farquharson L.JJ.) - 14 June 1991
Atlas, the claimants in arbitration proceedings, had obtained a Mareva injunction against Avalon, the respondents. On 20 December 1990 Phillips J. varied the injunction to provide that Avalon should be entitled to draw from the frozen funds..
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Exxon Corporation v. Central Gulf Lines and others (The Green Harbour) - US Supreme Court - 3 June 1991
This case raised the question whether admiralty jurisdiction extended to claims arising from agency contracts. In Minturn
v. Maynard
17 (H.o.w.) 477 (1855) it was held that an agent who had advanced funds for repairs and supplies necessary for a..
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