BHPB Freight Pty Ltd v Cosco Oceania Chartering Pty Ltd and Anr (The “Global Hawk”) (No 2) – Federal Court of Australia (Finkelstein J) – 10 November 2008

Practice – Joint wrongdoers – Shipowners alleging that charterer’s shipbrokers had made false representations when negotiating charter – Shipowners bringing proceedings against charterers’ shipbrokers and their own shipbrokers – Charterers’ shipbrokers seeking leave to bring cross-claim against owners’ shipbrokers for a proportionate liability order and for damages by way of contribution – Whether leave should be granted – Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic)

(2008) 757 LMLN 3