CA-2024-000950 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1019

Fecha: 30-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 1019

Case No: CA-2024-000950

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COMMERCIAL COURT

Mrs Justice Dias

[2024] EWHC 719 (Comm)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 30/07/2025

Before:

LADY JUSTICE ASPLIN

LORD JUSTICE MALES
and

LORD JUSTICE POPPLEWELL

Between:

1) DELOS SHIPHOLDING S.A.

2) NICHOLAS G. MOUNDREAS SHIPPING S.A.

3) FML SHIP MANAGEMENT LTD

4) THE NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.

Respondents/Claimants

- and -

1) ALLIANZ GLOBAL CORPORATE AND SPECIALTY S.E.

2) AXA CORPORATE SOLUTIONS ASSURANCE

3) GENERALI IARD

4) HELVETIA ASSURANCES S.A.

5) MAPFRE GLOBAL RISKS, COMPANIA INTERNATIONAL DE SEGUROS Y REASEGUROS

6) SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI ASSICURAZIONI E RIASSICURAZIONI P.A.

Appellants/

Defendants

Philippa Hopkins KC, David Walsh KC and Lorraine Aboagye (instructed by Adams & Moore Solicitors LLP) for the Appellants

Peter MacDonald Eggers KC, Sandra Healy and Sophie Hepburn (instructed by Hill Dickinson International) for the Respondents

Hearing dates: 9 & 10 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 30 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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