Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date15 February 2005
Date15 February 2005
CourtQueen's Bench Division

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

Before Mr Justice Langley

Golden Strait Corporation
and
Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha

Shipping - charterparty - repudiation of contract - role of war in calculating damages

Role of war in calculating damages

Where the charterer of a ship repudiated a charter and a subsequent event such as a war meant that the charter would then have been legitimately cancelled anyway, no extreme circumstance was necessary before taking that event into account in calculating damages.

Mr Justice Langley so held in dismissing the appeal of Golden Strait Corporation against the decision of an arbitrator, Mr Robert Gaisford, to allow only limited damages for the repudiation of a charterparty by which it had chartered a ship, the Golden Victory, to the defendants, Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha.

The appellant shipowner had chartered one of its ships to the respondent charterer in July 1998 for seven years. The...

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