Case Summaries
Knight, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Transport & Ors [2017]
“A diver who, in the period 2007 — 2011, had recovered items of value from various wrecks up to 200 years old, claimed salvage reward; the diver had not given timely notice to the Receiver of Wreck, who subsequently declined to make any award of salvage. The diver sought judicial review of that decision, in 2016. The Court found that the diver's claims were time barred, as the relevant salvage operations had terminated by 2012 so the 2 year time bar under the Merchant Shipping Act had expired in 2014.”