RÉSEAU DE TRANSPORT D'ÉLECTRICITÉ V COSTAIN LTD

[2025] EWHC 73 (Admlty), King's Bench Division, Admiralty Court, Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE, 20 January 2025

Admiralty – Limitation of liability – Whether party entitled to limit liability as a party to which article 1(4) applied – Res judicata – Cause of action estoppel – Abuse of process – Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, article 1(4)

The claimant, RTE, was said to be the owner of electricity cables damaged in an anchor dragging incident involving the respondent's barge Stema II and the cargo vessel Saga Sky.