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General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corpn. v. Tanter (The Zephyr) - Court of Appeal (Oliver, Stephen Brown and Mustill L.JJ.) - 25 July 1985
This was an appeal from that part of the judgment of Hobhouse J. which concerned the legal effect of a “signing indication” impliedly given to an underwriter by a broker at Lloyd’s. For an explanation of this practice - see the..
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TDK Distributors (U.K.) Ltd. v. Video Choice Ltd. & Ors. - Q.B.D. (Skinner J.) - 28 June 1985
In December 1982 the plaintiffs obtained a Mareva injunction against Mr. T. restraining him from disposing of his assets or any interest in his assets within the jurisdiction exceeding £601,500. He was allowed to spend up to £100 per week..
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Kong Cheuk Kwan v. The Queen - Privy Council (Lord Fraser, Lord Roskill, Lord Bridge, Lord Brandon and Sir Owen Woodhouse) - 11 July 1985
It is not often that collisions at sea result in prosecutions in the criminal courts. However, a collision between two hydrofoil ferries operating between Hong Kong and Macau which resulted in the deaths of two passengers has led to the Privy..
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Banque Paribas v. The Fund comprising proceeds of sale of the M.V. Emerald Transporter - 1985(2) S.A. 452
The vessel Emerald Transporter
was owned by Outer Ocean Navigation Corpn. Ltd. which owned other vessels which were “associated ships” in terms of section 3(7)(a)(i) of the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act, 105 of 1983. The Emerald..
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Southern Steamship Agency Inc. v. M.V. Khalij Sky - Supreme Court of South Africa (Adm. Div. of The Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division) - Munnik J.P. - 15 March 1984
The plaintiffs provided agency and stevedoring services and supplied necessaries to the defendants’ vessel Khalij Sky
in the U.S.A. It was accepted that, according to United States law, the plaintiffs had a maritime lien on the vessel in..
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Overseas Development Bank v. Nothmann - Court of Appeals of New York (Wachtler C.J. and Jasen, Meyer, Simons, Kaye and Alexander J.J.) - 19 March 1985
In LMLN 136, 17 January 1985, the Appellate Division refused to allow the enforcement in America of judgments obtained against the defendants in the Queen’s Bench Division in England in 1975. The reason for the Appellate Division’s..
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