Is charterers’ failure to pay an instalment of hire punctually under a time charterparty a breach of condition, strictly so called? Or, without more, does such a failure ‘merely’ entitle shipowners to withdraw the vessel from service under the charterparty in accordance with the express provisions of a withdrawal clause?
Sir Terence Etherton MR, Gross, Hamblen LJJ
[2016] EWCA Civ 982
Bailii
England and Wales
Transport, Contract
Updated: 23 January 2022; Ref: scu.569918
