Candlewood Navigation Corpn Ltd v Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd

Subject Matter

DAMAGES — Remoteness — Foreseeability — Collision between two vessels — Temporary repairs delayed by union ban — Ban in support of political rather than industrial objectives — Whether union ban foreseeable — Days lost through union ban — Whether to be included in quantifying damages due to bareboat charterer

[1986] AC 1; [1985] 3 WLR 381

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care to whom? — Time charterer — Defendant's vessel negligently colliding with vessel subject of bareboat charter with time charter back to vessel's owner — Whether economic loss recoverable by time charterer

[1986] AC 1; [1985] 3 WLR 381