A marine insurance policy governed by English law but made with French insurers was assigned, but notice of the assignment was not made according to French law through a bailiff. Nevertheless recovery under the policy was ordered. Under the Rome Convention the validity of the assignment was governed by the law which in turn governed the underlying asset.
Judges:
Longmore J
Citations:
Times 21-Jun-2000, Gazette 22-Jun-2000, [2000] 2 Ll.R. 684
Statutes:
Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 Sch 1
Cited by:
Appeal from – Raffelsen Zentralbank Osterreich Ag v Five Star General Trading Llc and Others CA 1-Mar-2001
An assigned marine insurance policy was subject to a claim. The issue was the ability of an assignee to claim as a claim in contract where the proper law was that under which the contract was made, or a claim of an intangible right to claim against . .
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Updated: 09 April 2022; Ref: scu.85648