Following a major oil spill off the Nigerian coast in 2011, land owners claimed in private nuisance for damage to their land, alleging that as the oil remained uncleaned, the nuisance was ongoing and the limitation period re-started daily. Confirming the Courts below, the Supreme Court ruled that the spill was a single event, and the tort was complete once the oil impacted the Claimants' land. The Claimants' argument was rejected as it would undermine the law on limitation by extending the time bar indefinitely.

Unicredit financed the sale of a cargo of LSFO by BP to Gulf. BP chartered the vessel from Euronav but further to a novation agreement, Gulf became charterer in BP’s place. Euronav thereafter delivered the cargo to Gulf without production of the b/l, which had not by then been endorsed to Unicredit by BP. Being unpaid by Gulf, the Bank claimed against Euronav for breach of the contract of carriage. The CA disagreed with the Court below that the b/l remained a mere receipt following novation. However, it agreed that Euronav’s breach was not causative of the loss, as on the evidence, the Bank would in any event have ordered delivery to Gulf. The Bank’s appeal was dismissed.

Quadra claimed that grain cargoes it purchased, stored in silos, were fraudulently misappropriated by sellers and sought reimbursement under its marine cargo policy. The CA confirmed the Court below, ruling that, despite the goods being unascertained, there was nonetheless an insurable interest, engaging XL's liability to Quadra.

To preserve the Hague-Visby Rules’ 1-year time bar, cargo Buyers obtained a time extension from Shipowners alone before pursuing claims against them – and Disponent Owners – for cargo contamination. Buyers pleaded that both Shipowners and Disponent Owners were estopped from denying that they were parties to the b/l because of the misrepresentation contained in the email granting the extension. The Full Court confirmed the first instance judgment that no claim could be made against Disponent Owners because of the time bar and against Shipowners because they were no party to the contract of carriage. No estoppel could be found because any representation should be clear and unambiguous, the subjective understanding of misrepresentee being irrelevant.

The Claimant Salvors of the Suez Canal-grounded “Ever Given”, sought remuneration from the Defendant Owners pursuant to the Salvage Convention or at common law. The Court decided a preliminary issue as to whether (as Owners argued) remuneration was governed by a concluded binding agreement (based on some ‘main terms’ plus a confirmation). The Owners’ defence failed as it was found that, by their exchanges and conduct objectively assessed, the parties did not purport to conclude a binding contract but merely reached an agreement as to the remuneration terms for a wider contract that was being negotiated.

The University suffered property damage when a previously undiscovered undetonated German bomb (nicknamed 'the Hermann' after Göring) dropped in 1942 was subjected to a controlled detonation. The Claimant Insurers sought a declaration that the damage was "occasioned by war" entitling them to rely on the policy war exclusion clause. In determining the “proximate cause” of the loss, the Court held the common-sense analysis was that it was caused by the explosion necessitated by the reasonable and correct decision to detonate; that decision was necessitated by the original dropping of the bomb which was the “obvious proximate cause of the damage”. The damage was “occasioned by war”.