Read the full judgment text of HCAJ 000091/2004 on BabelCite. This HCAJ judgment was delivered on 9 May 2005.
1. I have before me the adjourned hearing of an application by the plaintiff who are owners of the cargo and who hold still the original bills of lading against the defendants, owners of some 13 ships. The Writ was issued in May 2004 in respect of a claim where the cause of the action arose out of a lading of bill dated June 2002 for misdelivery which must have taken place some time around 2002. There is no question, in my view, that by now the action would be time-barred if the action has to