Daina Shipping Company v Te Runanga O Ngati Awa - [2013] 2 NZLR 799

Practice and procedure — Jurisdiction — Whether jurisdiction for establishment of limitation fund — No express statutory provisions — Whether implied provisions sufficient — Significance of legislative history — 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, arts 4 and 11 — Transport Act 1994, ss 86, 88, 89 and 91.

Shipping and navigation — Limitation of liability — Whether general right to limit liability — Application for establishment of limitation fund — Opposition to limitation fund — Tests for disentitling act or omission — “Limitation fund” — 1976 Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, arts 4 and 11 — Transport Act 1994, s 85.