England's Court of Appeal has granted China's HNA Group a second go at defending itself from a $68.6m judgment in a bitterly fought charter default dispute dating from the last days of the 2008 bull market.
The three-member panel found that High Court judge Robin Knowles incorrectly allowed "irrelevant matters including his lingering doubt as to whether the admissions were procured by torture" to influence his evaluation of bribery allegations in the May 2016 decision in favour of Shagang Shipping (now in liquidation).
