EDITORIAL

The construction of multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses

ANALYSIS OF RECENT CASES AND CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS

To be or not to be a bill of lading

MICHIEL SPANJAART

The Luna

[2021] SGCA 84

ARTICLES

Common sense and inevitable loss: proximate causation in marine insurance

WILLIAM MELBOURNE

Consultant, Clyde & Co LLP

The role of ‘common sense’ in determining inevitability in “Arch” (business interruption case)  and The Coxwold  – UK Supreme Court’s decision analysed.

Criminal liability based on European Regulations for ship recycling in South Asia: dead in the water?

ERIK M WITJENS

Attorney at law, De Reede Advocatuur, Rotterdam

At what point does legal ship recycling becomes illegal ship recycling, when ship recycling can lead to criminal liability under the European legal framework i.e. the Waste Shipment Regulation and the Ship Recycling Regulation.

Classification societies and immunity from jurisdiction

VIVIAN VAN DER KUIL

Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam

The author examines the roles of classification societies, the legal basis for their work  the cases the Erika  and the Prestige and Al-Salam Boccaccio 98.

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL REPORT

Choice of court agreements in bills of lading under Greek civil procedure law

ATHANASSIOS P PANTAZOPOULOS

Judge, Athens Court of First Instance

INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS

IMO – The IOPC Funds: meeting of the governing bodies (March 2022)

Patrick Griggs

BOOK REVIEW

Marine Insurance – A Legal History Volumes 1 and 2 - 920 pages

Rob Merkin

“Professor Merkin’s approach  represents a momentous development in the learning of this very important subject for

insurance and professional insurers, and commercial and social historians.”     Peter MacDonald Eggers QC

Index of cases

Index of legislation

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