Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA

Red Sea Insurance v Bouygues SA
CourtPrivy Council
Full case name Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA and 22 others
Decided18 July 1994
Citation[1995] 1 AC 190
Transcriptjudgment
Case history
Prior action[1992] HKLR 161
Court membership
Judges sittingLord Keith of Kinkel
Lord Slynn of Hadley
Lord Woolf
Lord Lloyd of Berwick
Lord Nolan
Case opinions
Lord Slynn of Hadley
Keywords

Red Sea Insurance Co Ltd v Bouygues SA [1995] 1 AC 190 is a judicial decision of the Privy Council relating to choice of law in tort. The case was an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong, but as the case was decided in Hong Kong pursuant to the English Law Ordinance, section 3(1), it is also taken to be an authoritative statement of English law.