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Shipping case digest - August 2017

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Welcome to this month’s edition of our shipping case digest, providing you with concise and useful summaries of recent legal decisions in the shipping market.

Third injured party not bound by exclusive jurisdiction agreement between insurer and insured

In this case, the ECJ ruled that a third party was entitled to bring a direct action against the insurer of the party which caused them harm and was not bound by an agreement on jurisdiction concluded between the insurer and that party… read more

Limitation period in salvage claims

In this recent judicial review case concerning eight bronze cannon from an East India company vessel, the court found that the claimant’s salvage claim was time barred and the date on which salvage operations terminated was a question of fact to be determined in every case… read more

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