The Application of the Morton Principles in Canada Steamship Lines Ltd v The King in Singapore Reconsidered

• Main Author: LOO, Wee Ling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: morton principles; canada steamship; canada ss; marina centre; cst cleaning; jurong port; negligence liability; exclusion clauses; limitation of liability; indemnity clauses; contra proferentem; contextual interpretation; Asian Studies; Commercial Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1741; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3693/viewcontent/ApplicationMortonPrinciples_2016_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For the interpretation of clauses that purportto allow a contracting party, the proferens, to exclude or limit, or beindemnified against, liability that arises by reason of his or his agents’negligence, certain principles were laid down by the Privy Council in 1952 inCanada Steamship Lines Ltd v The...