• Provides extensive coverage of contemporary international admiralty and maritime law in a style easily accessible
• Meets the substantive rules, jurisdictional issues and international aspects of maritime liabilities and compensation
• Practical discussion of modern risk management
• Divided into four parts - Admiralty jurisdiction and procedure, substantive law, international conventions and maritime safety

Essential guide for marine lawyers worldwide, students, shipowners, ship managers, salvors, shipbrokers, mortgagees, P & I Clubs, shipbuilders, port authorities, classification societies, regulators and other shipping and risk management professionals.

• Case summaries illustrating principles of common law, equity, statutes, EU Directives and International Conventions.
• The latest EU and international safety and security measures.
• Admiralty jurisdiction and arrest of ships.
• Anti-suit injunctions and arbitration issues.
• The role of classification societies and flag states.
• The ISM Code and liabilities arising from the unseaworthiness of ships.
• Civil and criminal liabilities of shipowners and ship managers with risk management considerations, including criminalisation for ship-source pollution.
• Shipbuilding, sale and purchase of second-hand ships, mortgagees’ rights and duties.
• Towage contracts and salvage law, including principles of general average.
• Port duties, rights and liabilities and the Wreck Removal Convention 2007.
• Limitation of liability and jurisdictional issues regarding forum-shopping.
• The Athens Convention 2002 and passengers rights.
• Marine pollution law, liabilities for damage by hazardous, noxious substances, nuclear incidents, and the compensation regimes (contributed by Elizabeth Blackburn QC).
• A discussion of the West Tankers case which raises important issues surrounding arbitration and jurisdiction.

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