Laws in Conflict
OT Africa Line Ltd v Magic Sportswear Corp
The "conflict of laws" is an appropriate description of litigation in Canada and England resulting from an alleged shortage in a shipment of goods carried from New York to Monrovia in February 2002 under a bill of lading issued in Toronto. The amount in issue was CAD$30,000. It is the sort of litigation which gives lawyers (and litigants) a bad name and warns the Australian maritime legal profession raising the question: how can and will the Australian courts deal with their own "Blue Banana"?
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