The Weekly Law Reports
[1974] 2 WLR 865
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. LTD. APPELLANT AND A. M. SATTERTHWAITE & CO. LTD. RESPONDENT
[ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NEW ZEALAND]
1973 Oct. 15,
16,
17,
18,
22;
1974 Feb. 25
1974 Feb. 25
Lord Wilberforce, Lord Hodson, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Simon of Glaisdale and Lord Salmon
Shipping
— Bill of lading
— Time bar
— Stipulation that action to be brought within one year against carrier, his servant, agent and independent contractor
— Stevedore unloading freight damaging drilling machine
— Action against stevedore more than one year later
— Whether stevedore entitled to benefit of contract made between shipper and carrier
— Whether stevedore's performance or service of unloading consideration for contractual benefit of time bar provision
—
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 22), Sch., art.III, r. 6