CHAPTER 1.AN EXAMINER'S VIEW OF CANDIDATES

CHAPTER 2.SALE OF GOODS

-Conditions

-Warranties

-The doctrine of "caveat emptor"

-Terms of a contract

-Express terms

-Implied terms

-By example

-Contracts for the sale of goods

-Property

-Goods

-Pice

-Performance of the contract

-Acceptance by the buyer

-Rights of the buyer

-In the event of non-delivery

-For breach of condition

-For breach of warranty

-Delivery to a carrier

-Delivery of wrong quantities

-General Rules

-Rights of seller

-Rights of an unpaid seller against the goods

-Unpaid seller

-Property which has not passed to buyer

-Property which has passed to buyer

-Lien

-A lien is lost when

-The seller may exercise a lien

-Stoppage in transit

-How stoppage in transit is effected

-Transit ceases when

-When does the "property" pass?

-Terms of sale

-incoterms

-C.I.F.(cost, insurance, freight)

-Ex works

-F.A.S.(free alongside ship)

-F.O.B, (free on board)

CHAPTER 3.CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA ACT 1924.THE HAGUE RULES

-General features

-coasting trade

-Live animals

--Deck cargo

-Particular goods

--Voyages covered

--Seawortmness

--From loading to discharge

-Obligation to issue a bill of lading

-Obligations of the shipper

-General Average

--DEviation

--Limitation of liability

-Dangerous goods

-Notice of loss or damage

-Exemptions from liability

-Time limit for bringing suit

-Benefit of insurance clause

-Bulk cargoes

-RULES RELATING TO BILLS OF LADING

CHAPTER 4.CARRIAGE OF GOODS BY SEA ACT 1971.THE HAGUE-V1SBY RULES

CHAPTER 5.THE BILLS OF LADING ACT 1855

CHAPTER 6.THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF GENERAL AVERAGE

-York-Antwerp Rules

-Principles of General Average

-Examples of General Average

-THE PRACTICE OF GENERAL AVERAGE

-General Average "Declaration"

-General Average security

--Average Bonds

-Underwriters'guarantees

--Cash deposits

-General Average adjustment and settlement

--Cargo values

-General Average settlement

-General Average (Vessels in Ballast)

CHAPTER 7.THE ROLE OF THE P.＆ I.CLUBS

-Crew members, etc

-Cargo

-Fines

-Contractual liabilities

Wreck removal

CHAPTER 8, DRY CARGO CHARTER-PARTIES

-Main types

-Time charter-party

-Voyage charter-party

-Demise charter-party

-Time charter-party (Specimen for discussion-"Baltime 1939")

-The Voyage charter-party (The Gencon)

CHAPTER 9.PASSENGER CONTRACTS

-The nature of the contract

-Original legal thinking on the passage contract

-How the law developed

-Continuing development

-The Hollingsworth case

-The Occupier's Liability Act 1957

-No common law warranty of seaworthiness

-Recent developments

(a) The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

(b) The Athens Convention

-Main intent and provisions of the Convention

CHAPTER 10.LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

- Original idea

-The Limitation Fund

-Interest rates

-The position where tug and tow seek to limit

CHAPTER 11.THE ROLE OF THE MASTER

-1.The Manager of a Commercial Enterprise

(i) Relationship between the master and crew

(ii) Port health and Customs

(iii) Contracts of affreightment

(iv) Marine Insurance and General Average

(V) Salvage

(vi)Pollution

-2.The Safety Officer

(i) Safety on board ship

(ii) Health and welfare

iii)Cargoes

(iv) Loading of ships

(v) Unseaworthy ship

(vi) Seamanship and navigation

-3.The Law Officer

-Prosecution

-Master's powers of arrest

CHAPTER 12.ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION

-Introductory

-Claims under the Supreme Court Act 1981, s.20(1)

-In personam jurisdiction

-In rem jurisdiction

-Liens, maritime and statutory

-Limitation of actions

-Limitation of liability

-Collision claims and the Both-to-BIame Clause

-Salvage

CHAPTER 13.OWNERSHIP AND REGISTRATION OF BRITISH SHIPS

-Registrable ships

-Nationality

-British-controlled foreign ships

-Foreign ships

-The mechanics of registration

-Alteration and termination of registration

-Owners, managing owners and the ship's husband

-Transfer, transmission and mortgage of ships

CHAPTER 14.INTRODUCTION TO MARITIME ARBITRATION

CHAPTER 15.THE SHIPOWNER AS EMPLOYER

-Introduction

-The seafarer's contract of employment

-Crew agreements and crew lists

-Discharge and discharge books

-Wages

-Repatriation

-Health, safety and welfare

-Manning and certification

-Discipline

-Industrial action and trade unions

-Discrimination

-Redundancy payments and unfair dismissal

CHAPTER 16.CONFLICT OF LAWS

-General

-Express choice of law

-Inferred choice of law: Arbitration clauses

-The objective proper law of the contract

-Proof of foreign law

-Judgments in foreign currency

CHAPTER 17.SEAWORTHINESS

-The function of seaworthiness in maritime law

-A general definition of seaworthiness

-Carriage of goods by sea

-Seaworthiness under a voyage charter-party

-Seaworthiness under a time charter-party

-Seaworthiness under a bill of lading

-Exceptions and limitations: The Hague Rules and the Hamburg Rules

-Seaworthiness in policies of marine insurance

-Seaworthiness in public maritime law

CHAPTER 18.DAMAGES IN SHIPPING CONTRACTS

-General rules

-Remoteness

-Mitigation

-Penalties, liquidated damages, demurrage and dispatch money

-Damages for failure to load

-Damages for failure to carry or to carry safely

-Limitation, limitation clauses and exemption clauses

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