Transport and Logistic Consulting SA v Schlumberger Seaco Inc – QBD (Com Ct) (HH Judge Chambers QC sitting as a Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division) – 27 January 2009

Contract – Marine agents – Agreement to provide marine agency services to defendants at Luba free port in Equatorial Guinea – Agents making payment to customs authority for alleged customs infraction by defendants – Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea asserting that payment was a bribe and imposing additional fine on agents – Agents seeking reimbursement from defendants – Whether payment to customs authority was a bribe

(2009) 763 LMLN 2