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Fast Search  Advanced Search Archive Bookshop  Reference  Newsletters  Magazines  Catalogue Events  Law  Internet  eCommerce In LMLN 800 - 23 July 2010 CASES – ENGLAND Contract – Guarantee – Shipbuilding contracts - Bank issuing advance payment bonds guaranteeing repayment to buyers of pre-delivery instalments of purchase price in certain events – Whether bond covered contractual repayments due from shipbuilder to buyers on insolvency of shipbuilder Rainy Sky SA and Ors v Kookmin Bank – Court of Appeal (Thorpe and Patten LJJ and Sir Simon Tuckey) – 27 May 2010 CASES – SOUTH AFRICA Admiralty jurisdiction – Associated ship - Whether ship can be arrested as associated ship where it is also the ship in respect of which the maritime claim arose Pancoast Trading SA v Orient Shipping Rotterdam BV (The “Bavarian Trader”) - High Court of South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal Division, Durban)(Wallis J) – 16 February 2010 CASES – UNITED STATES Carriage of goods by sea – Through bills of lading – Shipowners issuing bills of lading for combined ocean and inland transportation of goods from China to United States – Bills of lading incorporating US COGSA and containing Tokyo forum selection clause – Goods lost in course of inland rail carriage – Cargo owners bringing proceedings in United States against ocean and inland carriers – Whether cargo owners bound by forum selection clause – Whether forum selection clause disapplied by reason of Carmack Amendment Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd and Ors v Regal-Beloit Corp and Ors – US Supreme Court (Roberts CJ, Stevens, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito and Sotomayor JJ) – 21 June 2010 Practice – Injunction – US Government imposing moratorium on deepwater oil drilling following disastrous explosion from BP drilling platform – Persons affected by moratorium seeking preliminary injunction on basis that moratorium was imposed contrary to law – Whether injunction should be granted Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC and Ors v Salazar and Ors (US District Court)(ED Louisiana)(Feldman DJ) – 22 June 2010 Associated Publications                 About Informa Law | Help | Register | Subscribe | Contact Us | Terms & Conditions Privacy Statement | Copyright | Advertise © 2005 T&F Informa UK Limited The content of this web site is copyright by Publishing Group Limited. Reproduction, retrieval, copying or transmission of the content of this site is not permitted without the publisher's prior consent. Lloyd's and the Lloyd's Crest are registered trademarks of the Society incorporated by the Lloyd's Act 1871 by the name of Lloyd's.