Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc

The Achilleas
CourtHouse of Lords
Full case name Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc
Decided9 July 2008
Citations[2008] UKHL 48, [2008] 3 WLR 345, [2008] 4 All ER 159, [2008] 2 All ER (Comm) 753, [2008] 2 Lloyd's Rep 275
TranscriptFull House of Lords judgment
Case history
Prior action[2006] EWHC 3030 (Comm) [2007] EWCA Civ 901
Court membership
Judges sittingLord Hoffmann; Lord Hope of Craighead; Lord Rodger of Earlsferry; Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe; Baroness Hale of Richmond

The Achilleas or Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] UKHL 48 is an English contract law case, concerning remoteness of damage.