19 Sept 2025
CI v. IU
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 4397
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCT34/2025
The court dismissed the leave application because the Appeal Grounds failed the merit threshold: the Tribunal lawfully assessed Owners' losses including liabilities to IS based on materially back-to-back charterparties and an existing FS Award quantifying IS's liability; the Tribunal awarded damages (not a free-standing indemnity) after addressing all substantive defences including remoteness and mitigation; Occidental supports establishing liability from the contracts without a separate arbitration award; the precedents against premature indemnity orders did not apply in the factual matrix;…