McFadden v Blue Star Line

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date16 March 1905
Date16 March 1905
CourtKing's Bench Division
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3 firm's commentaries
  • "Beyond The Libra": Perspectives On Passage Planning In The Digital Age
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 10 August 2021
    ...unseaworthy if the passage plan was defective in such a way as to fall short of the long established test (McFadden -v- Blue Star Line [1905] 1 KB 697) that a prudent owner, had they known about the defect in advance, would have required it to be made good before the vessel sailed. It is eq......
  • "Beyond The Libra": Perspectives On Passage Planning In The Digital Age
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 10 August 2021
    ...unseaworthy if the passage plan was defective in such a way as to fall short of the long established test (McFadden -v- Blue Star Line [1905] 1 KB 697) that a prudent owner, had they known about the defect in advance, would have required it to be made good before the vessel sailed. It is eq......
  • One-Off Pilot Error Did Not Render Port Unsafe
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 24 March 2023
    ...she lacked the proper charts and therefore could not prepare an effective berth-to-berth passage plan: McFadden v. Blue Star Line [1905] 1 KB 697; The CMA CGM Libra [2021] 2 Lloyd's Rep 613. They argued that the Owners were, therefore, in breach of Article III.1 of the Hague Rules (incorpor......
2 books & journal articles
  • Carriage of Goods by Charterparty
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Archive Maritime Law
    • 27 August 2003
    ...2 3 4 5 Lyon v. Mells (1804), 5 East 428, 102 E.R. 1134; Stanton v. Richardson (1874), L.R. 9 C.E 390; McFadden v. Blue Star Line, [1905] 1 K.B. 697 [McFadden]. Toepfer G.m.b.h. v. Tossa Marine Co. (The Derby), [1985] 2 Lloyd's L.R. 325 (C.A.) [Toepfer}. Which now include the ISM Code: see ......
  • Pirates... A Charterers' Peril of the Sea?
    • United Kingdom
    • Southampton Student Law Review No. 1-1, January 2011
    • 1 January 2011
    ...(1874-75) LR 10 CP 1 (Court of Common Pleas); Annen v Woodman (1810) 3 Taunt 299 (Court of Common Pleas) 125McFadden v Blue Star Line [1905] 1 KB 697 (KB) 126Supra at fn. 101; Tattersall v National Steamship Co Ltd (1883-84) LR 12 QBD 297 (QB); The Marathon (1879) 40 LT 163; Owners of Cargo......

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