https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456952 Where a carriage of goods by sea contract originated in Japan and the shipment was destined for India, the Japanese Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1992 governed rather than the Indian Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, because the Indian Act applies to carriage from an Indian port. The carrier's liability was also subject to a package-based limited-liability regime under the governing maritime law and the Hague Rules, so damages could not be calculated by treating all sixteen packages as the basis when the claim was confined to two damaged cases. The computation of liability and damages was therefore required to be reconsidered on the correct statutory footing. en-us Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456952 Where a carriage of goods by sea contract originated in Japan and the shipment was destined for India, the Japanese Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1992 governed rather than the Indian Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 1925, because the Indian Act applies to carriage from an Indian port. The carrier's liability was also subject to a package-based limited-liability regime under the governing maritime law and the Hague Rules, so damages could not be calculated by treating all sixteen packages as the basis when the claim was confined to two damaged cases. The computation of liability and damages was therefore required to be reconsidered on the correct statutory footing. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456952