Ga-Hyun Chung v Silver Dry Bulk Co Ltd – QBD (Comm Ct) (Moulder J) [2019] EWHC 1147 (Comm) – 17 May 2019

Arbitration – Jurisdiction – Validity of appointment of arbitrator – Whether claimant’s challenge was to “substantive jurisdiction” – Whether effect of Marshall Islands statute was to extend life of company after dissolution to enable arbitration proceedings to be served on it

Bya memorandum of agreement dated 1 February 2011 Homer Hulbert Maritime Co Ltd (HH) agreed to sell the ship HN 1045 to Silver Dry Bulk Co Ltd (SDBC). The agreement contained a London arbitration clause.