SFL ACE 2 CO INC v DCW MANAGEMENT LTD (FORMERLY ALLSEAS GLOBAL MANAGEMENT LTD)

[2025] Lloyd's Rep. Plus 88

KING’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Christopher Hancock KC

Contracts – Time charterparty – Guarantee – Charterers declining to take delivery of vessel – Clause in charterparty amounting to guarantee – Emails sufficient writing to satisfy the Statute of Frauds requirement for writing – Quantum – Mitigation of loss – Statute of Frauds 1677, section 4.