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

Admiralty - Sale of cargo - Dispute as to ownership of cargo and validity of bills of lading - Cargo held at a warehouse - Whether cargo should be sold pending resolution of ownership dispute

Time charterparty - Bunkers on redelivery - Whether "price at both ends" extended to all bunkers on board on redelivery, even where shortfall exceeded 5 per cent allowance - Whether, in calculating compensation, the 5 per cent allowance should be ignored where it was exceeded - Whether vessel off hire due to crew change - Interest on wrongful deduction repaid late - LMAA Small Claims Procedure

Charterparty - Trip charter - Failure to nominate vessel - Repudiatory breach of contract - Compensatory damages - Assessment of damages - Mitigation of loss - Principle of minimum performance or obligation - Applicable interest rate

Letter of credit - Fraud - Circumstances in which bank could refuse payment - Letter of indemnity - Whether beneficiary had marketable title - Measure of indemnity