This case concerns a cargo of 2,364 bars of silver (‘the Silver’) which sank to the seabed of the Indian Ocean at a depth of some 2.5 kilometres in 1942. It was then regarded as unsalvageable, but some 75 years later it was recovered, giving rise on this appeal to important issues of law in relation to state immunity from Admiralty proceedings for salvage, and claims for salvage of wreck more generally.
Judges:
Lord Justice Popplewell
Lady Justice Andrews
And
Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing
Citations:
[2022] EWCA Civ 1318, [2022] WLR(D) 395
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Transport
Updated: 01 November 2022; Ref: scu.681869