The WLR Daily case summaries
[2020] WLR (D) 140
Court of Appeal
Aliza 1954 and another v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG and others
[2020] EWCA Civ 293
2020 Feb 18–19; March 4
Flaux, Haddon-Cave, Males LJJ
Shipping— Contract of carriage— Seaworthiness— Contracts for carriage of goods by sea subject to Hague Rules— Vessel’s passage plan failing to highlight warning that depths outside fairway less than charted— Master navigating outside fairway causing vessel to ground on uncharted shoal— Whether defective passage plan rending vessel unseaworthy— Whether causative of grounding— Whether want of due diligence on carrier’s part causing unseaworthiness— Whether carrier liable for loss—
Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo 5 c 22), Sch, arts III, r 1, IV, rr 1, 2