Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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THE "PALUDINA."

(1926) 25 Ll.L.Rep. 281

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Before Viscount Dunedin, Lord Sumner, Lord Carson, Lord Phillimore and Lord Blanesburgh, sitting with Vice-Admiral C. Greatorex, C.B., M.V.O., and Captain Owen Jones, C.B.E., R.D., as Nautical Assessors.

Series of collisions in Malta Harbour- Plaintiff (appellant) vessel broken adrift by negligence of defendant (respondent) vessel-Minor collision between plaintiff ship and third vessel S due to defendants' negligence-Subsequent serious collision between plaintiff ship and S-Interval of 20 min.- Chain of causation - Novus actus interveniens.

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