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18 November 2010
Issue: 7442 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Shipping

Pace Shipping Co Ltd v Churchgate Nigeria Ltd [2010] EWHC 2828 (Comm), [2010] All ER (D) 135 (Nov)

On the true construction of s 2(4) of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, where a holder of a bill of lading had a cause of action which he or it had acquired under s 2 of that Act, he could exercise those rights not only for the benefit of himself, or itself, but also for the benefit of the loser who was not pursuing a cause of action in the relevant proceedings. 
 

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