Time Limit For Claims And Financial Limitations On Carriers’ Liability Under The Rules 1. Time limit for claims The third...
Law of The Carriage of Goods by Sea
Hague-Visby Rules III
Hague-Visby Rules III – The Carrier’s Defences 1. ‘Due Diligence’ Defence Under Art. IV, r.1 This is not a defence,...
Hague-Visby Rules II
Hague-Visby Rules II – The Carrier’s Duties 1. Period Covered By The Rules Under the terms of Art. II, carriers...
Hague-Visby Rules I
Hague-Visby Rules I –Contracts To Which The Rules Apply 1. Contract Of Carriage ‘Covered By A Bill Of Lading’ The...
Bill of Lading as A Document of Title
Bill Of Lading As A Document Of Title 1. Types Of Bill Of Lading A bill of lading may be...
Bill of lading as a receipt
Bill of lading as a receipt 1. Apparent condition of the goods Printed forms of bills of lading typically state:...
Bill of Lading as Evidence of the Contract of Carriage
Bill Of Lading As Evidence Of The Contract Of Carriage 1. General rule: distinction between shippers and transferees of bills...
Employment And Indemnity
Employment And Indemnity Orders as regards employment Employment refers to the employment of the ship (i.e. what voyages she is...
Hire, Remedies for Non-Payment, ‘Off-Hire’ Clauses, Deductions from Hire and Liens on Freight and Sub-Freight
Hire, Remedies For Non-Payment, ‘Off-Hire’ Clauses, Deductions From Hire And Liens On Freight And Sub-Freight 1. Mode And Time Of...
Charter Period and Redelivery
Charter Period And Redelivery 1. Charter Periods And Tolerances The most straight forward type of time charter is for a...
Nature of Time Charters, Description of Ship, Delivery Date and Cancelling Clauses
Nature of time charters, description of ship, delivery date and cancelling clauses 1. Nature of time charters In the classic...
Freight
Freight 1. Delivery freight By the rule in Dakin v Oxley, freight is payable on the cargo delivered, even though...
Laytime And Demurrage
Laytime And Demurrage 1. Notice Of Readiness I: An Arrived Ship Unless the charter party contains special provision to the...
Voyage charter parties
Voyage charter parties 1. Shipowner’s Obligations As To The Ship To Be Provided Under The Charter Party A voyage charterparty will...
Owner’s Implied Obligations III
Owner’s Implied Obligations III – The Duty Not To Deviate From The Agreed Voyage 1. Establishing the contractual route At...
Owner’s Implied Obligations II
Owner’s Implied Obligations II – The Duty To Provide A Seaworthy Ship Meaning of seaworthiness A ship is not seaworthy...
Owner’s implied obligations I
Owner’s implied obligations I – general principles> Liability Of Sea Carriers At Common Law Liability of common carriers In the...
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Codification of the Law of Marine Insurance
Codification Of The Law Of Marine Insurance 01. Condifcation The Marine Insurance Act 1906 (hereafter referred to as the MIA...
The Subject of Marine Insurance
The Subject of Marine Insurance What Can Be Insured Generally, everything that will be exposed to risk of facing...
Owner’s implied obligations I
Owner’s implied obligations I – general principles> Liability Of Sea Carriers At Common Law Liability of common carriers In the...
Owner’s Implied Obligations II
Owner’s Implied Obligations II – The Duty To Provide A Seaworthy Ship Meaning of seaworthiness A ship is not seaworthy...
The Nature of Admiralty Jurisdiction
The Nature Of Admiralty Jurisdiction Statutory rights in rem and maritime liens The Senior Court Act 1981 (hereinafter known as SCA 1981) provides...
Enforceability of Claims under The Admiralty Jurisdiction of The High Court
Enforceability of claims under the Admiralty jurisdiction of the High Court Nature of in rem proceedings The advantages of the...
Pre-UN Development of the Law of the Sea
Pre-UN development of the law of the sea Introduction We know that as early as the fourth millennium BC there...
First UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I)
First UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS I) Aftermath of the Second World War The conduct of...