Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

On 6 September 1998 the respondent, who was then aged almost 16 years, boarded the appellant’s aeroplane at Kuala Lumpur on a flight to Amsterdam. She had visited her uncle in Kuala Lumpur and was travelling as an unaccompanied minor. She was..

The vessel Forum Victory was arrested and sold pursuant to a court order. A fund was constituted and a referee appointed to investigate claims. The referee lodged a report containing his recommendations as to the ranking of claims in terms of..

The vessel was chartered on an amended Gencon form for the carriage of a cargo of bags of rice from Bangkok and Kosichang to Nouakchott, Mauritania. On discharge at Nouakchott the receivers complained that the cargo was infested with insects...

By a charterparty on the Baltimore Berth Grain Form C dated 3 October 1996 the owners let a vessel to be nominated to the charterers for a voyage from the US Gulf to Malaysia. The relevant provisions of the charterparty were as follows: Lines 7 to..

On 27 February 1998 Global Marine International Drilling Corporation (“GMIDC”) entered into a contract with Harland and Wolff (“the builder”) for the construction and delivery of a deep-water drill ship “the..

The first alleged contract was made on 18 October 1995 when one of the appellants entered into a charterparty with the respondents. The second alleged contract was a purported Supply Contract dated 18 October 1995 between the other appellant and the..

By a contract on the BIMCO TOWHIRE conditions the claimant tug owners agreed to hire their tug Janus to the defendants for a 6 month charter in the Kiel Canal. On 17 March 2000, while the Janus was towing one of the defendants’ barges, the..