Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter
Midnight Marine Ltd and Another v Thomas Miller Speciality Underwriting Agency Ltd (The “Labhauler”) – QBD (Comm Ct) (Males J) [2018] EWHC 3431 (Comm) – 12 December 2018
Arbitration – Award – Respondent challenging award in High Court under sections 68 and 69 of Arbitration Act 1996 – Challenges dismissed on paper – Respondent renewing applications by way of oral hearing – Procedure to be adopted for oral hearings – Commercial Court Guide, para O8.5
An arbitrationarose out of the loss of the cargo being carried on the barge
Labhauler in March 2007, which was owned
by the claimants (the assured). The barge was being towed by a tug on a voyage
from St Martin in the Caribbean to Newfoundland with a cargo of scrap crushed
motor vehicles, together with some other equipment.