Description

This seminar is part of an annual update, “English Shipping Law”, which has been contributed by the speaker since 2001 and published in the International Maritime & Commercial Law Yearbook (part of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly). The seminar will also include consideration of judgments handed down by other courts. 2018 was another strong year, headed by a controversial decision of the UK Supreme Court in Volcafe (burden of proof under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules) and two further seminal decisions on limitation of liability under the Rules (The Maersk Tangier; The Aqasia) and an important collision appeal (The Alexandra 1 and Ever Smart). Also in the frame are English Court of Appeal judgments in The Pacific Voyager (voyage charterparties and cancellation) and The Alkyon (cross-undertakings on arrest) as well as several first instance judgments covering charterparty disputes (The Maria (Inter-club New York Produce Exchange Agreement); The Songa Winds (on LOIs), The Ocean Virgo (speed warranties), and a clutch of important first instance decisions, including The Alhani (time bar), The MV Sur (deviation), and admiralty arrests (The Sertao; The Ocean 8 of Hartlepool; The Posidon). Some of the cases will be considered in greater detail; cursory reference may be made to other reported cases in Australia, England, and Hong Kong, and not included in the detailed discussion.

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. He is author of Carriage of Goods by Sea 2nd ed (OUP, 2011), a co-author Marsden’s Collisions at Sea 14th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016) and Carver on Charterparties (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017), and a contributing author of The Rotterdam Rules in the Asia-Pacific Region (Shojihomu, 2014), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules(Lawtext, 2009), and Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007). He is a member of the editorial committee of the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, Singapore correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext).

Stephen speaks regularly at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Hong Kong, Panama, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Oslo, 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, and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute (AFNI).

Who Should Attend

Lawyers, In-house counsel and legal officers working in the maritime industry and in commercial trade, ship owners, banks and financial institutions, freight forwarders, traders, charterers, forwarders and those handling claims arising in maritime and commercial contexts.