The Weekly Law Reports
[1974] 3 WLR 269
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
UNION OF INDIA APPELLANTS AND E. B. AABY'S REDERI A/S RESPONDENTS
1974 March 25,
26,
27,
28;
June 13
June 13
Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Simon of Glaisdale and Lord Salmon
Shipping
— General average
— Centrocon arbitration clause
— General average expenditure for tow
— Undertaking by charterers to pay general average contribution
— Claim by shipowners for contribution
— Charterers' repudiation alleging unseaworthiness of vessel
— No arbitrator appointed within time specified by arbitration clause
— Preliminary issue whether arbitration clause affording shipowners defence to action
— Whether claim within clause
— Whether undertaking precluding charterers from relying on clause
Ships' Names
— Evje