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

[2025] 2 Lloyd's Rep 509

KING’S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Hancock

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