13 Mar 2015
STELLAR OCEAN TRANSPORT LLC v. THE OWNERS AND/OR DEMISE CHARTERERS OF THE SHIP OR VESSEL “RUBY STAR"
- Citation
- STELLAR OCEAN TRANSPORT LLC v. THE OWNERS AND/OR DEMISE CHARTERERS OF THE SHIP OR VESSEL “RUBY STAR"
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV133/2014
The sums of US$3,593,902 and US$769,593 are debts and there was no appropriation of those sums to in rem bunker claims; to found Admiralty in rem jurisdiction appropriation must have occurred at the time of the writ (commencement of action); the plaintiff failed to establish a matter of great general or public importance and failed to rely on the July 2013 claim to defeat the jurisdictional challenge, therefore leave to appeal to the Court of Final Appeal is refused.