Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Marine insurance - Fire in vessel's engine room - Owners giving notice of abandonment five months later - Whether NOA given too late - Whether owners entitled to be indemnified on constructive total loss basis - Whether owners entitled to recover costs incurred prior to NOA - Whether SCOPIC liability to be taken into account

Carriage of goods by sea - Package limitation - 1924 Hague Rules, article IV rule 5 - Whether package limitation capable of applying to bulk cargo - Meaning of "unit"

Practice – Stakeholder proceedings – Whether “competing claims” – Effect of Rule B attachment

Charterparty – Speed and consumption – Charterers making deductions for off-hire relying on vessel’s underperformance – Whether charterers subsequently entitled to assert claims for breach of warranty – Whether charterers’ performance claims time-barred – Whether average speed warranty related to each voyage or to whole charter period – Interpretation of contractual “good weather” provision – Whether weather “reports” included ship’s deck log in addition to “independent weather bureau” reports – Whether consumption warranty applied at date of delivery or throughout charter period

Practice – Costs – Arbitration – Respondent accepting claimant’s offer of settlement made prior to publication of arbitration award and expressed to be equivalent to CPR Part 36 Offer – Whether claimant entitled to costs on indemnity basis and enhanced interest

Charterparties – Supplytime 89 – Time charter – Independent contractor – Calculation of monthly stop – Minimum production clause – Past consideration

Charterparty – Redelivery – Charter providing for vessel to be redelivered “med/black sea” – Whether charterers entitled to redeliver vessel in Sea of Marmara Charterparty – Off hire – Vessel detained as a result of in personam legal proceedings brought by cargo receivers against charterers – Whether detention attributable to “legal action against … vessel ... or Owners” – Whether detention brought about by act or neglect of charterers – Whether owners’ failure to put up security broke chain of causation – Whether vessel off hire – Whether owners entitled to indemnity from charterers

Demurrage – “Always accessible” warranty – Whether included departure as well as arrival

This is the 1,000th issue of Lloyd’s Maritime Law Newsletter. LMLN was conceived in 1979 as a complementary publication to Lloyd’s Law Reports. Lloyd’s Law Reports is considered the essential reference tool for shipping law practitioners but there was a growing desire for a separate, newsletter-style, publication that could circulate summaries of important shipping cases within a much quicker timescale.