Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

Admiralty - Jurisdiction - Arrest - Definition of "ship" - Definition of "vessel used in navigation" - High Court (Admiralty Jurisdiction) Act 1961

Shipping - Carriage of goods - Cargo claim - Title to sue - Assignment of claim - Causation

Voyage charterparty - Norgrain form - Supplemental freight if Taixing nominated as discharge port - Taixing nominated by charterers but changed to Tianjin two weeks later - Whether owners entitled to freight payable on first nomination - Despatch at load port - Whether Corpus Christi holiday on 31May a public holiday in Brazil for laytime purposes, though not listed in BIMCO calendar

Wreck removal - BIMCO Wreckstage 2010 form - Work halted by contractor - Liability for advance payment - Liability for stage payments - Whether default judgment should be set aside

Time charterparty - NYPE form - Claim for difference in value of bunkers on delivery and redelivery - Counterclaim for speed and consumption breaches - Strength of evidence from logbooks, weather routing company and marine expert - Allegation that the vessel steamed an extra 250 miles Procedure - Reference commenced under LMAA Small Claims Procedure but continued under LMAA Terms 2021 - Costs cap under section 65 of the Arbitration Act 1996 - Failure to disclose documents in breach of peremptory order - Reservation of costs

Admiralty - Action in rem - Conflict of laws - Forum non conveniens