General Average in UK Law

  • Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd v Martin & Company (Contractors) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 June 1972
    ......327 , and Lord Justice Buckley drew f rom it a general proposition which he stated to be this (at page 341): . 10 ... to recover from the owners of the colliding ship the general average contribution which they had become liable to pay. Lord Roche there said ......
  • Heil v Rankin
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 June 2000
    ...... Warren Claimant/Appellant and Northern General Hospital Nhs Trust Defendant/Respondent Annable ... report of the Commission, O'Connor LJ, by fixing the figure for an average tetraplegic award in Housecroft v Burnett [1986] 1 All ER 332 , ......
  • Samuel (P.) & Company Ltd v Dumas
    • House of Lords
    • 25 February 1924
    ...... the policy either as a loss by perils of the sea or under the general words; but the other members of the Court held themselves precluded by the ...I take it this, if reasonably done, is a general average sacrifice of the vessel and, subject to the ship's contribution, is ......
  • Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company Ltd v Adamastos Shipping Company Ltd (Saxon Star.)
    • House of Lords
    • 06 March 1958
    ...... a whole and bearing in mind what the learned Judge described as "a general practice, well known to those sitting and practising in this Court", I ... by agreement, as was done with the York Antwerp Rules on General Average of 1890 (Scrutton on Charterparties 16th Edn., p. 454). Later it was ......
  • DPP for Northern Ireland v Lynch
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1975
    ....... . 6 The court certified that two points of law of general public importance were involved in their decision. The second related to ... in this context means, that which can be expected of the ordinary, average person in the particular circumstances. It is generally accepted, also by ......
  • Mareva Compania Naviera S.A. v International Bulkcarriers S.A.
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 23 June 1975
    ......30. But subject to that qualification the statute gives a wide general power to the Courts. It is well summarised in Halsbury's Laws of England. ...-freights for any amounts due under this Charter, including General Average contributions" -. . 8There is or may be a legal or perhaps equitable ......
  • Wells v Wells
    • House of Lords
    • 16 July 1998
    ......The judge, Collins J., awarded £110,000 for general damages. The total award on a life expectancy to the age of 60 came to ...But to simplify the illustration one can take an average annual cost of care of £10,000 on a life expectancy of 20 years. If one ......
  • Jefford v Gee
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 March 1970
    ...... General Damages £3,500. Cs. 0d. . 4 Mr. ...We think over that period we should take a mean or average of the rate obtainable on short term investment account. This would be 6%. ......
  • Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 10 July 1980
    ...... sum of money (£16.50), but is said to raise two questions of general importance for airlines and travellers by air. It does, in addition, ... from the French text further by suggesting that "avarie" means "average" and "average" means partial loss. But I cannot accept that it is sound, ......
  • Ruxley Electronics and Construction Ltd v Forsyth
    • House of Lords
    • 29 June 1995
    ....... . 13 The general principles applicable to the measure of damages for breach of contract are ...This conclusion would be unacceptable to the average householder, and it is unacceptable to me. It is a common feature of small ......
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