Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Contracts (carriage of goods by sea) – Applicable limitation regime – Formation – Fixture recap emails – Booking note – Sea waybill subsequently issued – Whether contract in emails or booking note – Whether sea waybill superseding prior concluded contract – Hague Rules – Australian Hague Rules – Hague-Visby Rules – Himalaya Clause

Charterparty – Deductions from hire – Speed and consumption – Meaning of “good weather and smooth sea” – Methodology – Evidence of weather – Effect of favourable currents – Whether weather routing company’s report final

Salvage – Sovereign immunity – Salvaged silver bars – Customary international law – Meaning of phrase “in use or intended for use for commercial purposes” in relation to cargo – Meaning of “wreck” – Powers of Receiver of Wreck – State Immunity Act 1978, sections 10 and 13 – Merchant Shipping Act 1995, sections 236 and 239

Charterparty (bareboat) – Hire paid under fixed-term charterparty – Title to transfer at end of charterparty provided hire and fees to ship manager paid – Where sums disputed by charterer in good faith – Barecon 2001

Carriage of goods by sea – Discharge of cargo without presentation of bills of lading – Bank issuing letter of credit to purchaser – Misdelivery – Summary judgment – Whether carrier had triable defence – Whether Bank consented to discharge without bills of lading – Causation