Shipping Law

Designed as both an academic textbook and practitioner handbook, this book covers "dry" and "wet" shipping, and concludes with a review of jurisdictional and procedural issues underpinning both. The rules of shipping law are placed in commercial context and related to English contract and tort law.

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This text covers the spectrum of English shipping law. It is designed as both an academic textbook and a practitioner handbook, and is divided into three parts. Part one covers "dry" shipping, including cargo claims under bills of lading and waybills, issues relating to combined transport and international carriage by road, as well as disputes arising under both voyage and time charterparties. Part two tackles "wet" shipping topics such as salvage, collisions, marine pollution and general average, while part three concludes the book with a review of the jurisdictional and procedural issues that underpin both "dry" and "wet" shipping. Topics include tonnage limitation, jurisdiction, choice of law, arrest and "mareva" injunctions. The book takes a structured and integrated approach to the highly specialized rules of shipping law which are both placed in their commercial context and related to the general principles of English contract and tort law. Particular care is taken to help the student get to grips with the specialized terminology which can often prove a barrier to the understanding of the subject