The Business Law Reports
[2018] Bus LR 1552
Queen’s Bench Division
Deep Sea Maritime Ltd
v
Monjasa A/S
[2018] EWHC 1495 (Comm)
2018 May 24;
June 15
June 15
David Foxton QC sitting as a deputy High Court judge
Shipping— Bill of lading— Time bar— Misdelivery of cargo by vessel owner— Bill of lading providing for exclusive jurisdiction of English courts and incorporating Hague Rules— Claim brought by shipper in foreign court within one year of delivery dismissed for want of jurisdiction but subject to appeal— Proceedings before English courts commenced years later— Owner seeking declaration claim time-barred under Hague Rules— Whether time bar applicable to misdelivery claims— Whether foreign proceedings brought in breach of exclusive jurisdiction clause constituting suit for purposes of time bar provision and precluding time bar defence in English proceedings—
International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law relating to Bills of Lading (Hague Rules) 1924, art III, r 6
Ships’ names—
ALHANI
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