The Weekly Law Reports
[1956] 3 WLR 598
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
KONINKLIJKE ROTTERDAMSCHE LLOYD (N.V.) APPELLANTS; AND WESTERN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. RESPONDENTS.
THE EMPIRE JAMAICA.
1956 July, 2,
3,
25.
LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD MERRIMAN, LORD GODDARD, LORD COHEN and LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM.
Shipping
— Limitation of liability
— Fault or privity
— Vessel manned with insufficient number of certificated officers
— Collision occurring during watch of uncertificated officer
— Actual fault or privity of owners
—
Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 503
—
Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Ordinance, No. 2 of 1949 (Hong Kong).
Causation.