Shipping in UK Law
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Hong Kong Fir Shipping Company Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd
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The test whether an event has this effect or not has been stated in a number of metaphors all of which I think amount to. the same thing; Does the occurrence of the event deprive the party who has further undertakings still to perform of substantially the whole benefit which it was the intention of the parties as expressed in the contract that he should obtain as the consideration for performing those undertakings?
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Czarnikow Ltd v Koufos (Heron II)
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The crucial question is whether, on the information available to the defendant when the contract was made, he should, or the reasonable man in his position would, have realised that such loss was sufficiently likely to result from the breach of contract to make it proper to hold that the loss flowed naturally from the breach or that loss of that kind should have been within his contemplation.
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Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries SA v Shipping Corporation of India
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In the present case, we are concerned with an election which may arise in the context of a binding contract, when a state of affairs comes into existence in which one party becomes entitled, either under the terms of the contract or by the general law, to exercise a right, and he has to decide whether or not to do so.
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Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Yngevar Hansen-Tangen (trading as H. E. Hansen-Tangen)
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No contracts are made in a vacuum: there is always a setting in which they have to be placed. In a commercial contract it is certainly right that the court should know the commercial purpose of the contract and this in turn presupposes knowledge of the genesis of the transaction, the background, the context, the market in which the parties are operating.
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Amin Rasheed Shipping Corporation v Kuwait Insurance Company
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The intention must be to impose upon the plaintiff the burden of showing good reasons why service of a writ, calling for appearance before an English court, should, in the circumstances, be permitted upon a foreign defendant. In considering this question the court must take into account the nature of the dispute, the legal and practical issues involved, such questions as local knowledge, availability of witnesses and their evidence and expense.
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Leigh and Sillavan Ltd v Aliakmon Shipping Company Ltd (Aliakmon)
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Midland Silicones Ltd v Scruttons Ltd
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I can see a possibility of success of the agency argument if (first) the Bill of Lading makes it clear that the stevedore is intended to be protected by the provisions in it which limit liability, (secondly) the Bill of Lading makes it clear that the carrier, in addition to contracting for these provisions on his own behalf, is also contracting as agent for the stevedore that these provisions should apply to the stevedore, (thirdly) the carrier has authority from the stevedore to do that, or perhaps later ratification by the stevedore would suffice, and (fourthly) that any difficulties about consideration moving from the stevedore were overcome.
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Green Shipping: Governing Sustainable Maritime Transport
Maritime shipping is integral to the global economy. Over 80 per cent of traded goods travel by ship. While states and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have stalled in the regulation o...
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Workplace fiddles in the shipping industry
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which workers employ rule breaking, rule bending and deviations from management defined norms in the workplace and the impact this has o...
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Reducing sulphur emissions from shipping
New regulations to ensure that the same regulatory requirements for sulphur emissions and anti-fouling systems will continue to apply to UK registered ships after Brexit were made last week. The Me...
- Shipping Investment Funds
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OFSI publishes financial sanctions compliance guidance for the maritime shipping sector
In July 2020, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published guidance for entities and individuals operating within the maritime shipping sector. The size and scale of the UK ...
- Stakeholder Claim - ST Shipping v Space Shipping & Anor
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Application for general limitation decree
Forms relating to shipping and maritime disputes, including Form ADM1 to make a claim relating to a collision or other damage.
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Request for withdrawal of caution against Release
Forms relating to shipping and maritime disputes, including Form ADM1 to make a claim relating to a collision or other damage.
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Request for caution against Release
Forms relating to shipping and maritime disputes, including Form ADM1 to make a claim relating to a collision or other damage.
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Standard directions to the Admiralty Marshal
Forms relating to shipping and maritime disputes, including Form ADM1 to make a claim relating to a collision or other damage.