Pyrene Company Ltd v Scindia Navigation Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 14 April 1954 |
| Date | 14 April 1954 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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Package Or Unit Limitation Under The Hague-Visby Rules
...that a bill of lading would be issued and the Claimant was entitled to demand the issue of a bill of lading (see Pyrene v Scindia [1954] 2 QB 402 as approved by the Court of Appeal in The 'Happy Ranger' [2002] 2 Lloyd's rep 357, both cases in which cargo was damaged during the loading opera......
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...could have been required by the shipper. Reliance in support was placed on the decision in Pyrene Co Ltd v Scindia Navigation Co Ltd [1954] 2 QB 402. The Court then examined the limitation issue and closely analysed the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia in El The ......
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...the containers were part of the loading operation. The Court of Appeal quoted the well-known passage of Devlin J in Pyrene v Scindia (1954) 2 QB 402 in which the "tackle to tackle" rule had been modestly extended to catch cases in which the goods were lifted from the quay side by the vessel......
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CONTRACTUAL ILLEGALITY AND CONFLICT OF LAWS
...shall apply. There is no need for the issuance of a physical bill of lading, see Pyrene Co. Ltd. v. Scindia Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.[1954] 2 Q.B. 402. For a recent case where the court held that the document issued (a consignment note having all three attributes of a bill of lading) was a ......
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Table of Cases
...for Lands for New South Wales [1954] 1 WLR 1410, [1954] 3 All ER 514, 98 SJ 802, PC 149 Pyrene Co Ltd v Scindia Navigation Co Ltd [1954] 2 QB 402, [1954] 2 WLR 1005, [1954] 2 All ER 158 91 Queen, The v Coney (1882) LR 8 QBD 534, 51 LJMC 66, 46 LT 307, 46 JP 404, 30 WR 678, 15 Cox CC 46, CCR......
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...a Hague Rules 1924 clause, but a diferent and lower limitation of liability and was upheld. 122 Pyrene Co v Scindia Navigation Ltd , [1954] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 321 (QB), followed by Anticosti Shipping Co Ltd v St Amand , [1959] SCR 372, followed by Saint Lawrence Construction CA, above note 52. 1......
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