Description

This workshop aims to place the shipping and freight forwarding contracts in their commercial context and explains the resulting legal requirements for the execution of the shipping and insurance arrangements. It highlights the importance but also the limitations of freight forwarders terms and conditions in the light of mandatory transport conventions and national law rules. Participants will work thorough sample case studies to deepen understanding of relevant issues. The short course will aim to provide useful material not only for those new to this area of practice, but also some food for thought for seasoned practitioners.

About The Speaker

Dr Lamont-Black is a German-educated lawyer and Senior Lecturer at the Edinburgh Law School. She writes the chapter on “Maritime Law: Carriage by Sea with General Average and Salvage” in the leading Scots Law treatise, Gloag and Henderson, The Law of Scotland 13th ed (2017), is co-editor (with Professor Rhidian Thomas) of Current Issues in Freight Forwarding: Law and Logistics (2017), and co-author (with Paul Bugden) of Goods in Transit 4 th ed (2018).

Dr Lamont-Black will be working on various projects during her stay in CML, including carrying out her own research on EU sea passenger rights and Singapore law.

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, In-house counsel and legal and sales officers working in freight forwarding, the maritime industry, for multimodal transport operators or in commercial trade and those handling claims arising in shipping, multimodal and commercial contexts.