PANAMANIAN ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. WRIGHT

[1970] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 365

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION(COMMERCIAL COURT)

Before Mr. Justice Mocatta

Marine insurance - Confiscation of vessel - Lloyd's policy - F.c. and s. clause deleted - Institute War and Strikes Clauses (Hulls-Time) incorporated - Vessel seized by Vietnamese authorities for carrying unmanifested goods - Confiscation of vessel ordered by Special Court - Whether loss by "restraint of people" and/or "barratry" - Validity of notice of abandonment - Whether vessel "constructive total loss" or "actual total loss" - Whether loss fell within exception clause - Marine Insurance Act, 1906, sects. 57 (1), 60 (2) (ii) and 62 (2), schedule 1, rule 10 of Rules for Construction of Policy.