Time bar – Supplies and ship repairs claim – Greece
Claims arising from provision of supplies to the vessel and from repairs on her, are, under Greek law, subject to a one year time-bar. Such a time bar starts from the end of the year when the claim arose.
In a case for such claims, a law suit was filed and the procedure lasted for several years, with procedural actions having a time difference of less than one year between them, until the defendant died and the hearing was interrupted in 2003. The hearing was again assumed on 2008. In the meantime, the period lapse
was more than the one year time-bar and the claim was considered as time-barred during judicial action.
Piraeus Court of Appeal Judgment no 691/2013, President: P. Tsandekidou, Rapporteur Judge:G. Dimakis, Attorneys at law: I. Polychroniou, E. Kotsonis, Maritime Law Review vol. 41, p. 454. NOTE: The time-bar is interrupted each time a judicial action occurs; it starts again thereupon. The time-bar under examination, starts again at the end of the year when the interruption took place.
The legal column was written by Manolis Eglezos, Attorney at law,