30 Nov 2017
The Owners and/or Demise Charterers of the Ship or Vessel "MCC Jakarta" v. The Owners and/or Demise Charterers of the Ship or Vessel "Xin Nan Tai 77"
- Citation
- The Owners and/or Demise Charterers of the Ship or Vessel "MCC Jakarta" v. The Owners and/or Demise Charterers of the Ship or Vessel "Xin Nan Tai 77"
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCAJ48/2011
The Court held that (1) sanctioned offers under RHC O 22 are not invalid merely because they include terms as to costs unless those terms conflict with mandatory RHC O 22 provisions; (2) the 1st and 3rd Jakarta offers were effective for costs purposes (service to TZ & Co was effective as TZ & Co was instructed to act and the Xiamen notice did not defeat that), entitling Jakarta to indemnity costs after the respective cut-off dates and enhanced interest on costs subject to proportionality; (3) where RHC O 22 does not neatly apply to offers between co-defendants or to offers addressed to multip…