Course Details

1. Demonstrate working knowledge of English law in contracts on the carriage of goods and passengers by sea.
2. Identify areas of disputes relating to the carriage of goods and passengers by sea and discuss how to intelligently deal with them should they arise.
3. Compare and contrast the various types of charparties and charetere’s bills of lading, including voyage charterparties, time charterparties and bareboat charterparties.
4. List and appraise important milestones of international conventions on the carriage of goods by sea.
5. Illustrate an understanding of common carrier theory on carriage of passengers and their luggage by sea.

�         Introduction to Contracts of Affreightment and the Parties thereto

�         Bills of Lading

�         Introduction to the Types of Charterparties and overview of Charterers’ Bills of Lading

�         Voyage Charterparties

�         Time Charterparties

�         Bareboat Charterparties

�         Terms of a Charterparty

�         Remedies and interim orders

�         Overview of International Conventions on the carriage of goods by sea: Hague Rules, Hague-Visby Rules, Hamburg Rules,     Rotterdam Rules.

�         Carriage of Passengers and their luggage by sea:Common carrier theory; Athens Convention; EU Regulation 392/2009.

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• Charles Wild & Stuart Weinstein, Smith & Keenan’s English Law text and cases, 16th ed., Pearson Education

• Brenda Hannigan, Company Law, 1st ed., Oxford University Press.
• Ewan McKendrick, Contract law, Text, cases and Materials, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press.
• John Cooke, Law of Tort, 7th ed, Pearson Longman
• Paul Richards, Law of Contract, 7th ed, Pearson Longman
• Phil Harris, An Introduction to Law, 6th ed., Butterworths
• Vivienne Harpwood, Modern Tort Law, 6th ed., Cavendish Publishing