Admiralty – Liability for collision – Collision Regulations 1972 – Failure to turn to starboard – Apportionment of liability

Salvage – Meaning of provision of salvage services – Calculation of salvage costs – Anti-suit injunction

Charterparty – Amended NYPE 1993 form – Final hire accounts – Off-hire – Underperformance claim – Whether master’s or weather routing company’s evidence of weather to be preferred – Meaning of “up to BF4” and “in good faith” in performance warranty – Whether damage to ship’s cranes caused by stevedores loading and discharging logs – Master abandoning bunkering when vessel double-banked, ropes parted and a seaman was injured – Whether vessel off-hire – Causation

Procedure – LMAA Fast and Low Cost Arbitration (FALCA) Rules

Carriage of goods – Contractual incorporation of Hague Rules – Contract making separate provision for time limits and service – Whether Hague Rules ousted – Whether contractual provisons compatible with Hague Rules, article III, rules 6 and 8

Charterparty – Amended NYPE 1946 form – Covid-19 PCR test certification for new crew – Rejection of vessel for loading in China – Deviation to Korea to obtain certification – Whether PCR certificates required to make the vessel “in every way fitted for the service” – Whether vessel off-hire

Conflict of laws – Representative proceedings – Cruise ship affected by outbreak of Covid-19 – Proceedings brought on behalf of US and UK passengers – Cruise ship operators applying for stay of proceedings in reliance on exclusive jurisdiction and class action waiver clauses in terms and conditions – Whether clauses incorporated into passage contracts – Whether Australia clearly inappropriate forum – Whether stay should be granted

Marine insurance – Pay to be paid clause – Assured insolvent – Whether third-party claimants bound by clause – Inconsistency – Construction – Implied term – Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010