Castle Insurance Company Ltd v Hong Kong Islands Shipping Company Ltd (Potoi Chau)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtPrivy Council
Judgment Date1983
Date1983
Year1983

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18 cases
  • Metall Market OOO v Vitorio Shipping Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 June 2013
    ...they are liable to contribute themselves. 32 Much of this law has been conveniently restated in Castle Insurance Co Ltd v. Hong Kong Islands Shipping Co Ltd (The Potoi Chau) [1984] 1 AC 226 (PC), where Lord Diplock said this: "Causes of action for unliquidated sums that, in the absence of e......
  • Telfair Shipping Corporation v Inersea Carriers S.A. (Caroline P)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • Invalid date
    ...following additional cases were cited in argument: Castle Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Hong Kong Islands Shipping Co. Ltd. [1984] A.C. 226; [1983] 3 W.L.R. 524; [1983] 3 All E.R. 706; [1983] 2 Lloyd's Rep 376, Coast Lines Ltd. v. Hudig & Veder Chartering NV [1972] 2 Q.B. 34; [1972] 2 W.L.R. 28......
  • Metall Market OOO v Vitorio Shipping Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 4 April 2012
    ...( Huth v Lamport (1885–1886) LR 16 QBD 735 per Lord Esher MR at p737; per Lindley LJ & Lopes LJ at p738; Castle Ins Co v Hong Kong Islands Shipping Co [1984] AC 226, 236; Lowndes & Rudolph The Law of General Average 13 th Edn paragraph 30.41). 18 As to the form of what amounts to re......
  • Virk v Gan Life Holdings
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
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1 books & journal articles
  • THE CESSATION OF SUE AND LABOUR
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...Insurance Company, Ltd, ibid, at 74; approved by the Privy Council in Castle Insurance Co Ltd v Hong Kong Islands Shipping Co Ltd[1983] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 376; followed in Callaghan v Dominion Insurance Co Ltd[1997] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 541. 115 Supra n 110. 116 Ibid, at 160. 117 Supra n 13, at 534; ci......