Description

About the Seminar

This reconvened annual short course will focus on admiralty judgments handed down or reported in 2021-2022, complementing the short course on shipping law cases (by Professor Stephen Girvin) on 20 April 2022. It will examine recent developments in admiralty law, practice, and jurisdiction, focusing on decisions from the courts of Singapore and England and Wales, but also discussing cases originating from Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, and South Africa. Issues that will be highlighted include the form of P&I Club LOUs provided for alternative security in admiralty proceedings (The Pacific Pearl), the single liability principle in collision proceedings and time bars (The Caraka Jaya Niaga III-11), schemes of arrangement and their impact on admiralty proceedings (The Ocean Winner), conditional stays of proceedings (The Navios Koyo), forum non conveniens in the admiralty context (Pusan Newport and Bright Shipping), admiralty treatment of P&I Club payments of wages (The GP Asphalt 1), ship agents’ disbursements, wrongful arrest, salvage, foreign state immunity, port charges and harbour dues, the in personam link in admiralty jurisdiction, sales proceeds and disbursements, and proof of foreign law. Some of the more significant cases will be considered in detail; others will be highlighted but not discussed in so much detail. Care will be taken to illustrate how these new cases develop, resolve, or raise further questions on the development of the law in this field.

About the Speaker

Associate Professor Paul Myburgh is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Maritime Law. He previously held Faculty positions at the University of South Africa, Victoria University of Wellington, and the University of Auckland, and was an MPA Visiting Professor at NUS and a Visiting Professor at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland for a number of years. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Nordisk Institutt for Sjørett (Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law), University of Oslo, at the University of Queensland, and at City University of Hong Kong (KH Koo Foundation Visiting Research Fellow, Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transport Law).

Paul is the editor of The Arrest Conventions: International Enforcement of Maritime Claims (Hart, 2019) and has published a significant number of book chapters and journal articles in leading international journals. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore and the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand and represents the Centre for Maritime Law on the Admiralty Court Users Committee of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He is the New Zealand correspondent for the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and a member of the editorial  boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law and the Maritime Business Review.