Shipping Law Handbook, 5th Edition provides a comprehensive collection of all the source materials most commonly referred to by those involved in shipping litigation or arbitration, whether as shipowners, lawyers, arbitrators, claims handlers or insurers.
The contents include International Conventions (with lists of current parties), statutes and statutory instruments, arbitration rules, charterparties, bills of lading, insurance clauses and other standard contracts.
The following areas are covered:
Arrest, Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
Arbitration
Limitation of Liability
Cargo Claims
Collision
Marine Insurance
Oil Pollution
Salvage, Towage and General Average
Standard Forms
The fifth edition has been fully updated to include:
LMAA Intermediate Claims Procedure (2009)
LMAA/Baltic Exchange Mediation Terms (2009)
Regulation 593/2008 on the law applicable to contractual regulations (Rome I)
Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010
Institute Cargo Clauses A, B, C (2009)
Institute War Clauses (Cargo) (2009)
Institute Strikes Clauses (Cargo) (2009)
International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001
Wreckhire 2011
Wreckfixed 2011
Wreckstage 2011
Congenbill 2007
Updated lists of parties to International Conventions
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