From Good Faith to Utmost Good Faith in Marine Insurance

The Author: Johan Hendrik Botes was born in Malmesbury (South Africa). He holds the B.A. (Philosophy and Latin, 1997) and LL.B (2001) degrees from the Universiteit van Stellenbosch (South Africa), a law certificate (2001) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and the LL.M.-degree (2002) from the Shipping Law Unit of the University of Cape Town (South Africa). The author did part of his research for the LL.M. dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. After an internship at a Hamburg shipping law firm, the author was awarded a scholarship by the DAAD in 2003 for doctoral research at the See- und Seehandelsrechtsinstitut of the Universität Hamburg. Currently the author is based in Cape Town where he specialises in maritime and shipping law.

lt;i>Contents: The history of the marine insurance contract - The history of good faith in marine insurance law - Good faith and the marine insurance contract on the Continent - The history of the principle of utmost good faith in marine insurance - The modern principle of utmost good faith - Conclusion: In the matter between good faith and utmost good faith.