EDITORIAL
‘Pushback’ of migrants and the duty to rescue at sea
JASON CHUAH

ANALYSIS OF RECENT CASES AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS

Potential conflict between special and standard terms in shipment sales
A GELGEC
Septo Trading Inc v Tintrade Limited (The Nounou) [2020] EWHC 1795 (Comm), [2021] EWCA Civ 718

Volatile markets require quick contracts – where there is  irreconcilable conflict the express terms prevail. The article traces the case history with emphasis on The Nounou.

Global limitation of liability of shipowners and others
Holyhead Marine Ltd v Farrer and Others [2020] EWHC 1750 (Admlty), [2021] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 221

Splitt Chartering APS and Others v Saga Shipholding Norway AS and Others (The Stema Barge II)
[2021] EWCA Civ 1880 (15 December 2021)

Perusahaan Perseroan (Persero) Pertamina v Trevaskis Ltd
[2021] HKCFI 396, [2021] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 637

ARTICLES
All eyes on deep sea mining: monitoring and inspection of activities in the Area
KLAAS WILLAERT
Maritime Institute, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University

Designing appropriate monitoring and inspection mechanisms is a complex task:   – onsite monitoring demands independence and complimentarity between ISA and states – here the legal regime and latest proposals are examined.

Avoiding collisions at sea – a new but wrong course for the marine industry?
Evergreen Marine (UK) Limited v Nautical Challenge Ltd (The Ever Smart/Alexandra 1 collision)
HARRY HIRST
Retired mariner and marine lawyer

This article queries the Supreme Court decision concerning the application of the crossing rules (COLREGS rules 9 and 15), particularly at the entrance to a narrow channel and regrets a lost opportunity for clarification of the vessels’ obligations under these circumstances. 

Bay of Bengal region – the case for a regional law of ship arrest
DAUD HASSAN
Associate Professor and Director of International Centre for Ocean Governance (ICOG) School of Law, Western Sydney University
SAYED HASSAN
Lawyer and Maritime Law Researcher, ACT,
Australia

The drive to achieve a global ship arrest law by international conventions has only been partially successful; the author suggests that the littoral states to the Bay of Bengal are well placed  to develop  a supplementary  regional  ship arrest law.

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL REPORT
Recent trends in China’s domestic regulations concerning deep seabed mining activities
XU JOHN ZHANG
Juris Doctor Graduate, Melbourne Law School
Adjunct Research Fellow,The Institute of Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea Studies,
Dalian Maritime University

INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS
The IOPC Funds: meeting of the governing bodies (November 2021)
Patrick Griggs

BOOK REVIEWS
Maritime Claims and Boundary Delimitation: Tensions and Trends in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Nicholas A Ioannides

Insurable Interest and the Law
Franziska Arnold-Dwyer

Perils of the seas and inherent vice in marine insurance law
Ayça Uçar