Elafonissos Fishing and Shipping Company v Aigaion Insurance Company SA
Decision date: 4 April 2012
Neutral citation: [2012] EWHC 892 (Comm)
Court: High Court (Commercial Court)
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
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This is an insurers' application for permission to re-amend their Defence and Counterclaim and to adduce a witness statement described as an expert report. The court refused the proposed re-amendment that the vessel was not laid up in a seaworthy condition (disallowing the seaworthiness-based plea) but permitted a limited re-amendment to paragraph 12, and allowed parts of Mr Kardiakopoulos’s statement to be adduced (summary of other proceedings and evidence about port lay-up requirements) while excluding evidence on hot/cold lay-up. Insurers were ordered to pay the costs of the application and of the deleted allegations.
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