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About the Event

The course will consider appellate-level decisions concerning whether ransom payments and whether charterparty provisions incorporated into bills of lading precluded recovery (The Polar UKSC); on misdelivery and the Hague-Visby Rules time-bar (The Giant Ace); on misdelivery,causation and the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992 (The Sienna); on tonnage limitation (The MSC Flaminia (No 2)); on narrow channels and the COLREGS (The Navigator Aries); on salvage and the Salvage Convention 1989, art 13 (De Beers Marine); on limitation and the Hague-Visby Rules (The Thorco Lineage); on off-hire/deductions from hire (The Anna Dorothea); on the crossing rules under the COLREGS (FMG Sydney/MSC Apollo); on entitlement to salvage (The Ever Given); on cleaning following expiry of a charterparty (The Globe Danae); on delay in delivery and inherent vice (The M/V Maersk Chennai); on nautical fault and the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules (The Afra Oak); on title to sue, causation and the quantum of recoverable losses (The Doric Valour); on liens on sub-freights and demurrage (The Maria Theo 1). Some of the cases will be considered in detail; others will be highlighted but not discussed closely. Care will be taken to illustrate how the new cases develop, resolve, or raise further questions on the development of the law in this field.

About the Speaker

Professor Stephen Girvin is a tenured full Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, MPA Professor of Maritime Law, and Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML). He is the author of Carriage of Goods by Sea 3rd edn (Oxford, 2022), a co-editor (with Professor Vibe Ulfbeck) of Maritime Organisation, Management and Liability: A Legal Analysis of New Challenges in the Maritime Industry (Hart Publishing, 2021), and a co-author of Carver on Charterparties 2nd edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2021), 3rd edn due in August. His next co-edited book, Carbon-Free Shipping and Shipping Carbon: Contracts in Context, will be published in August (Hart Publishing). Stephen is also the general editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Maritime and Oceans Law (6 vols), to be published in late 2025/early 2026.

Stephen is the Singapore correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext) and The Transnationalm Commercial Law Review (Queen Mary, University of London). He was also a contributing member of the editorial committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook (Informa) 2002-2020.

Stephen speaks regularly at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Hong Kong, Panama, Rio de Janeiro, Sapporo, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Copenhagen, Dubai, Greensboro (NC), Hamburg, London, New York, Oslo, Piraeus, Ravenna, Rotterdam, and Stockholm. He is a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association and the British Maritime Law Association, a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute (AFNI).