Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd v Gibbs (The Salem)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
JudgeTHE MASTER OF THE ROLLS,LORD JUSTICE KERR,LORD JUSTICE MAY
Judgment Date12 February 1982
Neutral Citation[1982] EWCA Civ J0212-3
Docket Number82/0109
Date12 February 1982

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    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 22 May 2018
    ...LJ; Panamanian Oriental Steamship Corpn v Wright (The “Anita”) [1970] 2 Lloyd's Rep 365, 372, per Mocatta J; and Shell International Petroleum Co Ltd v Gibbs (The “Salem”) [1982] QB 946, 990D-F, per Kerr LJ and 998F–999B, per May LJ. It also included the replacement of the Institute War and......
  • Suez Fortune Investments Ltd v Talbot Underwriting Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 7 October 2019
    ...Republic of Bolivia v Indemnity Mutual Marine [1909] 1 KB 785; Banque Monetaca v Motor Union Insurance (1923) 14 Ll L Rep 48; The Salem [1982] QB 946, 985–986; rev'd on other grounds [1983] 2 AC 375; and The Andreas Lemos [1983] 1 QB 483 Counsel for the Underwriters submitted that the neces......
  • Strive Shipping Corpn v Hellenic Mutual War Risks Association (Bermuda) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 25 March 2002
    ...that the clause was "obviously intended to deal with damage effected in the course of some civil disturbance". In Shell Petroleum Ltd v. Gibbs [1982] 1 QB 946 there was a claim for loss of cargo arising out of a complex fraud aimed at evasion of the oil embargo on South Africa. One conseque......
  • Nima SARL v The Deves Insurance Public Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 July 2002
    ... ... I attach a fax from the ICC-International Maritime Bureau confirming that the person involved in the ... relied on the obiter dicta of Lord Denning MR in Shell International Petroleum Co Limited v Gibbs ("The Salem") ... ...
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