Ince & Co looks at passing costs liability down a charterparty chain
The judgment in Occidental Chartering Inc v Progress Bulk Carriers Ltd (The Chada Naree) [2012] EWHC 3515 (Comm) deals with the recoverability of the costs of an arbitration as damages in a series of arbitration references, notwithstanding the absence of an arbitration reference for one of the links in the charterparty chain.
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