Stocznia Gdynia SA v Gearbulk Holdings Ltd – QBD (Com Ct) (Burton J) – 2 May 2008

Contract – Shipbuilding contracts – Delay – Purchaser terminating contracts for delay in delivering vessels – Whether purchaser entitled to terminate for accepted repudiatory breach – Whether contracts ousted common law right to terminate for accepted breach – Whether contract excluded builder’s common law liability – Whether purchaser terminated contracts solely in reliance on contractual termination provisions

(2008) 744 LMLN 1