1. Introduction
This article concerns a shipbroker’s liability in damages towards the instructing party who engages him to provide services in relation to the sale of a fishing vessel – in light of a Court of Appeal decision concerning the fishing vessel Stormfuglen – LF-2023-72628 (appeal to the Supreme Court denied: HR-2024-1519). This topic requires some introductory remarks, first on shipbrokers as intermediaries, and then on the particularities of fishing vessels.