Overview
Designed to provide a comprehensive and critical survey of the law relating to the carriage of goods by sea, this third edition includes all the changes in case law and legislation over the last five years.While dealing primarily with charterparties and bills of lading, attention is devoted to the development of NRE forms of documentation and problems involving through and combined transport. A final section examines the intracacies of the procedure for dispute settlement.
Legal principles are examined throughout against the background of current documentation and contemporary market practice. This approach is supported by an appendix, which includes relevant legislation, the Haague-Visby and Hamburg Rules and a wide selection of charterparty and bill of landing forms.
Synopsis
Designed to provide a comprehensive and critical survey of the law relating to the carriage of goods by sea, this third edition includes all the changes in case law and legislation over the last five years.
While dealing primarily with charterparties and bills of lading, attention is devoted to the development of NRE forms of documentation and problems involving through and combined transport. A final section examines the intracacies of the procedure for dispute settlement.
Legal principles are examined throughout against the background of current documentation and contemporary market practice. This approach is supported by an appendix, which includes relevant legislation, the Haague-Visby and Hamburg Rules and a wide selection of charterparty and bill of landing forms.