By Stephen Girvin

Description

• Comprehensive scope including underlying principles to documents of carriage, international regulation and the responsibilities and obligations of the skipper and carrier
• his books contains a unique coverage of cargo claims including limitation periods, damages and arbitration
• Draws together principles from key UK and Commonwealth cases in one volume
• Accessible, logically laid out text with clear paragraphs and frequent headings, to assist in ease of locating and understanding the material

Carriage of Goods by Sea contains contains a lucid analysis of the law on the subject written primarily from the perspective of English law but with reference to cases in other major commonwealth countries.

Introductory chapters cover topics such as the business of carriage as well as the underlying principles (contract, agency, tort, and bailment) and of frustration. This book includes an analysis of the bill of lading and other documents of carriage (including sea waybills and delivery orders). The book focuses on international carriage measures, such as the Hague, the Hague-Visby, and the Hamburg Rules and discusses current developments towards uniformity. The author includes shippers obligations, the obligations of the carrier, and the rights and immunities of the carrier and there is full coverage of the main issues in charterparties: voyage (including problems of laytime and demurrage); time; and demise. Uniquely the book also covers an analysis of cargo claims.

This book will fill an important gap in the existing literature on the subject. It will be one of a small number of one volume texts covering the subject in its entirety, with the added benefit of being fully up-to-date and appealing both to a practitioner and a student audience. Coverage includes all the traditional topics, such as bills of lading and charterparties (voyage, time, and demise), and focuses also on each of the international conventions regulating the subject. Additionally, the content of the book extends to such issues as limitation, admiralty claims (in the cargo context), and a brief discussion of maritime arbitration. Although written from the perspective of English law, a particular feature is the extensive cross-referencing to (and analysis of) the law in other major common law jurisdictions (especially Australasia, Malaysia and Singapore, Hong Kong, and South Africa).

Aimed at practitioners, law students and professionals in the industry, the author provides a full and detailed coverage of the main principles in a user-friendly and accessible format.

Readership: This book will be of interest to legal practitioners in the maritime law field, professionals in the industry, such as chartered shipbrokers, and also those working for shipping companies and in other areas of the sector, particularly the P & I Clubs (and marine insurance) as well as postgraduate law students taking courses in the carriage of goods by sea.

Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. The Business of Carriage of Goods

PART II: BILLS OF LADING AND OTHER DOCUMENTS OF CARRIAGE
2. Shipping documents issued before shipment

3. Types of bills of lading

4. Other documents of Carriage

5. Issue and Transfer of Bills of Lading

6. The Bill of Lading as a Receipt for the Goods Shipped

7. The Bill of Lading as Evidence of the Contract of Carriage

8. The Bill of Lading as a Document of Title

9. Third Parties and Bill of Lading Terms

10. The Carriers Delivery Obligation

11. Alterations of Delivery Obligations and Other Problems

12. Charterparties and Their Relationship with Bills of Lading

13. Paperless Trading

PART III: INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC REGULATION
14. Domestic Legislation on Cargo Liability

15. The Rise of International Regulation

16. The Movement to the Hamburg Rules

17. Hybrid Carriage Regimes and International Uniformity

18. The Legal Effect and Interpretation of the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules

19. The Scope and Application of the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules

PART IV: THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SHIPPER
20. Shippers Common Law Obligations

21. Freight

22. Shippers Obligations and Immunities under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules

PART V: THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE CARRIER
23. Seaworthiness

24. Deviation

25. Reasonable Despatch

26. The Carriers Obligations under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules

PART VI: THE RIGHTS AND IMMUNITIES OF THE CARRIER
27. Liens

28. Exclusion of Liability under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules

29. Limitation of Liability

PART VII: CHARTERPARTIES
30. Voyage Charterparties

31. Laytime and Demurrage

32. Time Charterparties

PART VIII: CARGO CLAIMS
33. Frustration

34. Limitation periods

35. Admiralty claims

Authors, editors, and contributors

Stephen Girvin, Professor of Maritime Law, University of Birmingham

Published Year: 2007 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978-0-19-876458-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 768 Our Price: £ 142.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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