Shipping & Transport

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 2018

Principle established: Summary judgment should not be granted where there are triable issues of fact, such as whether a third party interfered with luggage under international aviation conventions.

Sierra Leone — African Law Reports · 1950-56

Principle established: A sea carrier's liability for carriage of goods terminates upon proper unloading and delivery onto the quay in accordance with port custom.

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1954

Principle established: A carrier's responsibility for goods ends upon valid delivery according to the custom of the port of discharge, after which it holds the goods merely as an agent.

Sierra Leone — African Law Reports · 1920-36

Principle established: A judgment on a special case stated does not preclude an appeal, and carriers are liable for cargo loss caused by dangerously overloading a vessel.

Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1963

Principle established: Under section 6(2) of the Fisheries Act, a licensing officer has the statutory power to impose conditions that restrict a licensee's right of navigation.

Sierra Leone — African Law Reports · 1920-36

Principle established: An appellate court will rarely disturb a trial judge's findings on verbal testimony unless clear material inconsistencies or oversight of crucial circumstances are demonstrated.

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1922

Principle established: A carrier is liable for loss of goods caused by overloading a canoe, and a local custom permitting such dangerous overloading is legally unsupportable.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1953

Principle established: A captain may use reasonable force or restraint only when he reasonably believes it necessary for safety.

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1920

Principle established: A local custom permitting a native carrier to take other cargo when a non-native hirer contracts for exclusive use is unenforceable as contrary to natural justice, equity and good conscience.

Sierra Leone — African Law Reports · 1920-36

Principle established: Local customs permitting carriers to take extra cargo despite a contract for exclusive use are repugnant to natural justice and equity, and thus unenforceable.

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1921

Principle established: A local custom allowing a canoe owner who lets a vessel for exclusive use to place additional loads and passengers inside is legally unsupportable under ordinance provisions.

Lanbuk on the Law of Torts · 1943

Principle established: To break the chain, an intervening act must be something unwarrantable, a new cause, extraneous or extrinsic (Lord Wright).

Sierra Leone — African Law Reports · 1920-36

Principle established: Owner's risk clauses exempting carriers from liability in exchange for reduced rates are enforceable if consignors are offered a reasonable alternative at standard carrier's risk rates.

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1991

Principle established: Not yet classified

Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 2022

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Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 1980

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Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 1991

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Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 2009

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Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 2020

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Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 2008

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Sierra Leone — Court of Appeal · 2026

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Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 2021

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Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 2005

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Sierra Leone — Supreme Court · 2005

Principle established: Not yet classified