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In this well-established textbook, Simon Baughen expertly covers the whole spectrum of English shipping law, placing the highly specialised rules of shipping in a commercial context and relating them to the general principles of contract and tort law.
List of contents
Preface to the Seventh Edition
Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Statutory Instruments and Rules of Civil Procedure
Table of International Conventions
Abbreviations
Glossary
PART 1 DRY SHIPPING
1 The Commercial Background
2 Title to Sue
3 Proving Loss or Damage in Transit
4 The Terms of the Bill of Lading Contract
5 Statutory Terms of the Bill of Lading Contract
6 The Future? The Hamburg Rules and the Rotterdam Rules
7 Combined Transport
8 Carriage by Road – the CMR
9 Charterparties
10 Voyage Charterparties – Payment of Freight
11 Voyage Charters – Laytime and Demurrage
12 Time Charters
13 Damages and Frustration
PART 2 WET SHIPPING
14 Collisions
15 Salvage
16 General Average
17 Marine Pollution
PART 3 JURISDICTION, CHOICE OF LAW, SECURITY AND LIMITATION
18 Jurisdiction, Arbitration and Applicable Law
19 Security and Interim Relief
20 Limitation of Liability
Index
About the author
Simon Baughen is Professor of Shipping Law at Swansea University. Previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School, he studied law at Oxford and spent a number of years practising maritime law.
Summary
In this well-established textbook, Simon Baughen expertly covers the whole spectrum of English shipping law, placing the highly specialised rules of shipping in a commercial context and relating them to the general principles of contract and tort law.
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'Professor Baughen's book is a text suitable for students and covers a significant amount of the subject area. Also, the material has been extensively researched and the book has been comprehensively footnoted.'
Kathleen S Goddard, Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton