Midnight Marine Ltd and Another v Thomas Miller Specialty 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 69of Arbitration Act 1996 – Challenges dismissed on paper – Respondent renewingapplications by way of oral hearing – Procedure to be adopted for oral hearings– Commercial Court Guide, para O8.5

An arbitration arose 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.