GOLDEN OCEAN GROUP LTD v SALGAOCAR MINING INDUSTRIES PVT LTD AND ANOTHER

[2012] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 542

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Lord Justice Rix, Lord Justice Tomlinson and Sir Mark Waller

Charterparty (Time) — Guarantee — Brokers negotiating charter by email — Negotiations proceeding on basis that charterers would be “fully guaranteed” by first defendant — No single document identifiable as contract of guarantee — No signed charterparty drawn up — Whether final email in sequence “signed” by broker on behalf of first defendant — Whether contract of guarantee enforceable — Statute of Frauds 1677, section 4.