Ixom Operations Pty Ltd v Blue One Shipping SA (The CS Onsan) - [2023] FCAFC 25, Full Court, Federal Court of Australia (Justice Rares, Justice Sarah C Derrington and Justice Stewart), 7 March 2023

Contract (bill of lading) - Time bar - Extension of time - Bill of lading consignee obtaining time bar extension from "owner" - Litigation commenced against registered owner within time - Demise charterer joined out of time - Registered owner's defence that it was not a party to the contract of carriage - Demise charterer's time bar defence - Estoppel - Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1991 (Cth), section8 and schedule1A - Hague-Visby Rules, articles 1 and 3 - Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)

(2023) 1131 LMLN 2