Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Charterparty – Bribery – Shipowners seeking to enforce charterparty obligations against guarantor – Guarantor alleging charterparty procured by bribery – Guarantor relying on confession evidence – Shipowners alleging confession obtained by torture – Whether charterparty enforceable

Admiralty practice – Arrest of vessel by mortgagee – Shipowner applying for order releasing vessel from arrest unless mortgagee provided cross-undertaking in damages – Whether cross-undertaking should be imposed as condition of release

Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Whether holder of bill of lading bound to submit to arbitration of demurrage dispute notwithstanding it had not exercised rights of suit