Shipping Law and Admiralty Jurisdiction in South Africa

This is a comprehensive study of maritime law in South Africa since the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act of 1983 broke the shackles of the limited reach of English Colonial admiralty jurisdiction.

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This publication is the a study of maritime law in South Africa since the Admiralty Regulation Act of 1983 broke the shackles of the limited reach of English Colonial admiralty jurisdiction - which paradoxically then still applied in a Republican South Africa. Yet shipping law in the new South Africa remains essentially an English common law regime operating, not uncomfortably, with a rich overlay of the Roman-Dutch Civilian Law.