THE OWNERS AND/OR DEMISE CHARTERERS OF THE SHIP OR VESSEL “OOCL CHINA” v THE OWNERS AND/OR DEMISE CHARTERERS OF THE SHIP OR VESSEL “DARYA BHAKTI”

Read the full judgment text of CACV 70/2013 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 January 2014.

1. This was an appeal against a judgment of Deputy High Court Judge Sakhrani dated 10 December 2012, given in a Claim in a Reference in an Admiralty action between the parties, arising out of a collision that took place off Shanghai on 4 March 2008 between the plaintiffs’ vessel “OOCL China” and the defendants’ vessel “Darya Bhakti”. Each of the parties brought a claim against the other in respect of the collision, but prior to liability for the collision being determined, the quantum of the par