Read the full judgment text of HCCL 000099/1986 on BabelCite. This HCCL judgment was delivered on 9 January 1987.
1. This is an application by the Plaintiff for a declaration that the appointment by the Defendant of Mr. Julian Lister as the Defendant's arbitrator is null and void. The arbitration clause in the charterparty concerned requires the arbitrators to be "commercial shipping men". The short question is whether Mr. Lister is a commercial shipping man. Both sides, as I understand it, accept that he is a shipping man and the question resolves itself into whether he is a commercial man. There is some g