Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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OWNEAST SHIPPING LTD v QATAR NAVIGATION QSC (THE “QATAR STAR”)

[2011] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 350

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr Justice Christopher Clarke

Charterparty (Time) — Anti-technicality clause — Charterers failing to pay hire — Vessel withdrawn from service — Owners not giving anti-technicality notice — Charterers intending to make payment with deductions — Owners contending that deduction unjustifiable — Whether recklessness of charterers amounted to intention not to pay — Whether charterers intended to fail to make payment “as set out” — Whether withdrawal wrongful.

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