Hearings
Scotland
06 Oct 1988 [1989] AC 643; [1988] 3 WLR 730; [1989] 1 All ER 37; [1989] 1 Lloyd's Rep 8, HL(Sc)
Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Hall Russell & Co Ltd
Ships
Esso Bernicia
Subject Matter
SHIPPING — Compulsory pilotage — Compulsory pilotage area — Vicarious responsibility of pilotage authority for acts and omissions of pilot — Ship being navigated into berth at oil terminal — Collision with jetty — Alleged negligence of pilot — Whether employee of pilotage authority — Pilotage Act 1913, s 15(1)
[1989] AC 643; [1988] 3 WLR 730
SHIPPING — Oil pollution — Liability for — Indemnity — Collision of tanker with jetty causing escape of oil — Payments by owners to crofters in respect of oil pollution damage — Payments made under voluntary agreement between major oil companies — No assignment by crofters of rights of action against those responsible for damage — Subrogation — Whether tanker owners entitled to sue in own name
Appellate History
Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Hall Russell & Co Ltd 1988 SLT 33
Decision of the First Division of the Inner House of the Court of Session reversed in part
Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Hall Russell & Co Ltd [1989] AC 643; [1988] 3 WLR 730; [1989] 1 All ER 37; [1989] 1 Lloyd's Rep 8, HL(Sc)