Manifest Shipping Company Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Company Ltd (Star Sea)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
JudgeLeggatt,Henry,Waller L JJ
Judgment Date20 December 1997
Date20 December 1997

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  • K/s Merc-scandia Xxxxii v Certain Lloyd's Underwriters and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2001
    ... ... considered by the House of Lords in Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v. Uni-Polaris Insurance Co ( he Star Sea ) [2001] 2 W.L.R. 170 in the context of a ... ...
  • Royal Boskalis Westminster N.v v Mountain
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 February 1997
    ... ... the light of the Court's decision in ( Manifest Shipping -v- Uni-Polaris Shipping unreported ... shipowner had lent £10,000 to a salvage company and the owner's ship being at risk of loss from ... ...
  • Donegal International Ltd v Zambia
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 15 February 2007
    ... ... and Economic Development), an English company owned by the Zambian Minister of Finance on ... find out whether or not they were: see Manifest Shipping Co Ltd v Uni-Polaris Shipping Co Ltd , ... ...
  • HIH Casualty and General Insurance Ltd v Chase Manhattan Bank
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2001
    ...decision of the court of appeal and House of Lords in Manifest Shipping & Co Ltd v. Uni-Polaris Insurance Co Ltd (The Star Sea) [1997] 1 Lloyd's Rep 360, [2001] 1 Lloyd's Rep 389 (see especially at 398, 405), the extent of the obligations which the duty of good faith continued to impos......
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  • One-Off Pilot Error Did Not Render Port Unsafe
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 24 March 2023
    ...and that the port was unsafe as a result. Owners will often seek to rely on the first part of Leggatt LJ's dictum in The Star Sea [1997] 1 Lloyd's Rep 360, that it may be possible to infer incompetence from a single The present decision, however, demonstrates the importance of the second pa......
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