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About the Event

The course will consider appellate-level decisions on salvage and sovereign immunity (The SS Tilawa); on sanctions and Barecon 2001 (The Courage and The Amethyst); on limitation under the LLMC 1976 and claims for wreck removal expenses (The Antea and Star Centurion). The main focus is several first instance judgments: on shipping documents as B/Ls (The BF Leticia); on demurrage and safety decisions by the master (The MT Stena Primorsk); on charterparty performance warranties and the “good weather method” (The Divinegate); on alleged misdelivery after discharge and the HVR time-bar (The Giant Ace (No 2)); on tonnage limitation of liability and the LLMC 76/96 (The MSC Flaminia (No 2)); on three-ship collisions and apportionment (MV Pacific Pearl Co Ltd v Quick Ship Holdings SA); on the incorporation of the HR into a booking note and limitation of liability (The MV Dijksgracht); on art IV, r 5(a) of the HVR and the weight of “goods lost or damaged” (The Thorco Lineage); on the status of the B/L in hands of original shipper and delivery without production of the B/L (The Siena); on the application the COLREGs in designated precautionary area (The Wilforce and the MV Western Moscow); on discharge without B/Ls and a claim by a carrier for an indemnity (The Miracle Hope). Some of the cases will be considered in detail; others will be highlighted but not discussed too 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 of Carbon-free Shipping and Shipping Carbon – Contracts in Context (2024).
He is co-author of Carver on Charterparties 2nd edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2021), 3rd edn due end-2023, and Marsden’s Collisions at Sea 14th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016). Stephen is also general editor and contributing editor of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Maritime and Oceans Law (due end-2025). He is 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). Outside maritime law, Stephen has been an editor of Palmer’s Company Law (Sweet & Maxwell) for more than two decades.

Stephen is the Singapore correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext) and The Transnational Commercial Law Review (Queen Mary, University of London).

Stephen speaks regularly at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Dubai, Hong Kong, Panama, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Milan, 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, and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute (AFNI). In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).