Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 8 October 1991.
1. At issue between the plaintiff and the defendant, World Happy Shipping Limited, is ownership of the vessel the subject of this action. Both plaintiff and defendant have perfectly respectable arguments that respectively they are owners of the vessel. The question is whether the plaintiff should be allowed to ventilate its argument at trial. A further question is whether the warrant for the arrest of the vessel which was obtained by the plaintiff should be set aside.