Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Practice – Interpleader – Liability for payment of supply of bunker following collapse of OW Bunker Group – Entitlement to trust funds deposited by party seeking to interplead

General average – Liability to contribute – Whether liability limited to owner of benefited cargo – Whether fact that cargo suppliers were “on risk” in relation to benefited cargo sufficient to establish liability to contribute

Charterparty – Anticipatory breach – Damages – Time-charterers redelivering vessel early – Whether owners bound to give credit for value of vessel sold on repudiation for greater sum than value of vessel at contractual date of redelivery

Arbitration – Rules of trade association placing limit on acceptance of repeat appointments by an arbitrator and limiting number of active arbitrations in which an arbitrator might be involved – Whether limitations constituted unreasonable restraint of trade – International Cotton Association Ltd

Saleof goods – Renunciatory breach by seller – Whether buyer accepted breach as terminating contract – Whether buyer's failure to nominate vessel sufficiently unequivocal act – Whether buyer’s failure to nominate relieved seller of obligation to deliver

Charterparty – Owners settling cargo claims – Charterparty incorporating NYPE Inter-Club Agreement – Owners claiming to recover expenditure from charterers as damages – Whether charterers in breach of charter for failing to handle cargo claims in first instance – Whether owners entitled to recover pursuant to implied indemnity in charter – Whether owners entitled to recover pursuant to Inter-Club Agreement

Judicial review – Claim for salvage in respect of wreck – Receiver of Wreck refusing to make salvage award – Whether “salvage operations” cannot be considered finished until everything raised from sea bed – Whether salvage claim time-barred