United Salvage Pty Ltd v Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SNC [2006] FCA 1141

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

United Salvage Pty Ltd v Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SNC [2006] FCA 1141

SHIPPING – Salvage – Amount of Salvage Reward – Factors Relevant to Assessment – Liability Salvage – Whether excluded from consideration – 1989 Convention on Salvage – Interpretation – Extrinsic aids - Vienna Convention – Travaux Preparatoires – Proof of Beneficial Ownership

Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth) s 4(3)(g) The International Convention on Salvage- opened for signature: London, 28 April 1989(Entry into force for Australia: 8 January 1998) Navigation Act 1912, s 315 and Schedule 9 Travaux Preparatoires of the International Convention on Salvage 1989 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Marine Claims- opened for signature: London, 19 November 1976. (Entry into force for Australia: 1 June 1991) Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Act 1989 (Cth), s 6 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: opened for signature- Vienna, 23 May 1969. (Entry into force for Australia: 27 January 1980

The "Whippingham" (1934) 48 Ll. L.Rep 49 Westar Marine Services v Heerema Marine Contractors S.A. (1985) 621 F Supp 1135 The "Amerique" (1874) 6 LR 6 PC 468 Fisher v The "Oceanic Grandeur" (1972) 127 CLR 312 "The Nagasaki Spirit" [1997] AC 455 The Korowa v The Kooraka [1949] SASR 45 The Kristy Mae v The Santa Rita [1984] WAR 95 Delosa v Clippers Anchorage Pty Ltd (NSWSC, 6 November 1978)

C La Rue and C Anderson, Shipping and the Environment, LLP, 1998. G Brice, Maritime Law of Salvage (3rd Edition), Sweet and Maxwell, 1999 F Rose, (D Steel and R Shaw consulting editors): Kennedy and Rose: The Law of Salvage (6th Edition), Sweet and Maxwell, 2002 UNITED SALVAGE PTY LTD, GLADSTONE TUG SERVICES PTY LTD, QUEENSLAND TUG AND SALVAGE CO PTY LIMITED v LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS SNC, LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS SAS, SOCIETE ANONYME LOUIS DREYFUS ET COMPAGNIE AND OLTRAMARE SHIPPING CO SA NSD 246 OF 2002 AND NSD 430 OF 2004 TAMBERLIN J SYDNEY 1 SEPTEMBER 2006