General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corpn. v. Tanter (The Zephyr) - Court of Appeal (Oliver, Stephen Brown and Mustill L.JJ.) - 25 July 1985

Marine Insurance practice - Whether implied signing down indication is legally enforceable

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 summary of the decision as first instance in LMLN 105 - 10 November 1983.