Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Marine insurance - Pay to be paid clause - Assured insolvent - Whether third party claimants bound by clause - Inconsistency - Onerous clause doctrine - Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010

Asbatankvoy charter - Jurisdiction - Whether notice commencing arbitration effective - Whether LMAA Terms prevailed over clause 24 - Whether demurrage claim time-barred for omission of an invoice from claim documents provided within 60 days of discharge - Whether time stopped counting on hose connection, not disconnection - Whether stoppages because of threats of drone attacks should be regarded as "stoppages or restraint of labor" and time should not countProcedure - Charterers' solicitors ceasing to act - Final and peremptory order

Contract - Ship sale - Deposit - Cooperation - Condition precedent to payment of an accrued debt - Maxim that a person should not derive a benefit from their own wrong - Mackay v Dick principle

Arbitration - CIF contract - Error of law - Effect of alleged failure by seller to obtain effective insurance - Criteria for the grant of permission to appeal - Arbitration Act 1996, section 69