OWNEAST SHIPPING LTD v QATAR NAVIGATION QSC (THE “QATAR STAR”)
[2011] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 350
QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (COMMERCIAL COURT)
Before Mr Justice Christopher Clarke
Charterparty (Time) — Anti-technicality clause — Charterers failing to pay hire — Vessel withdrawn from service — Owners not giving anti-technicality notice — Charterers intending to make payment with deductions — Owners contending that deduction unjustifiable — Whether recklessness of charterers amounted to intention not to pay — Whether charterers intended to fail to make payment “as set out” — Whether withdrawal wrongful.