Modern Maritime Law and Risk Management, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive coverage of contemporary international admiralty and maritime law in an easily accessible style. It brings together substantive law, jurisdictional issues and international aspects of maritime liabilities and compensation with a practical discussion of modern risk management.
The book is an essential guide for marine lawyers worldwide, students, shipowners, ship managers, salvors, shipbrokers, mortgagees, P & I Clubs, shipbuilders, port authorities, classification societies, regulators and other shipping and risk management professionals.
With a wealth of information covered, the book is helpfully divided into four parts – Admiralty Jurisdiction and Procedure; Substantive Law; International Conventions; and Safety at Sea.
Just some of the many topics covered in Modern Maritime Law and Risk Management are:
- Case summaries illustrating principles of common law, equity, statutes, EU Directives and International Conventions.
- The latest EU and international safety and security measures.
- Admiralty jurisdiction and arrest of ships.
- Anti-suit injunctions and arbitration issues.
- The role of classification societies and flag states.
- The ISM Code and liabilities arising from the unseaworthiness of ships.
- Civil and criminal liabilities of shipowners and ship managers with risk management considerations, including criminalisation for ship-source pollution.
- Shipbuilding, sale and purchase of second-hand ships, mortgagees’ rights and duties.
- Towage contracts and salvage law, including principles of general average.
- Port duties, rights and liabilities and the Wreck Removal Convention 2007.
- Limitation of liability and jurisdictional issues regarding forum-shopping.
- The Athens Convention 2002 and passengers rights.
- Marine pollution law, liabilities for damage by hazardous, noxious substances, nuclear incidents, and the compensation regimes (contributed by Elizabeth Blackburn QC).
- A discussion of the West Tankers case which raises important issues surrounding arbitration and jurisdiction.
