Admiralty Law

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify key legal and policy issues in their commercial, safety and environmental contexts;
• apply Admiralty principles, with appropriate legal authorities, in the solution of complex practical problems involving multiple regimes of liability;
• display clarity and objectivity in written discussion.
• analyse relevant legal materials, including international conventions, statutes, case law and standard form maritime contracts;
• critically appraise and offer solutions in existing areas of debate in U.K. and international maritime law;
• draft legal advice based upon such problems;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• think critically in relation to policy issues;
• identify and locate relevant legal materials, including international conventions, statutes, case law and standard form maritime contracts;
• plan and manage your studying.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the main principles which govern Admiralty liabilities, including: -salvage and collision liabilities -carriage of passengers, -towage and dock liabilities -marine pollution liabilities -limitation of liability -the scope of contractual rights and obligations;
• the main commercial, safety and environmental policies and values underpinning Admiralty Law;
• the existing areas of debate about what the law is and what it ought to be, both in U.K. and internationally.

Introduction to Admiralty law

The International Salvage Convention 1989

Salvage Contracts

Collision liabilities

Towage contracts

Liability for the carriage of passengers

Liability for marine pollution

Limitation of liability

Ship Arrest

Actions in rem and in personam

Maritime Liens

Freezing injunctions

Jurisdictional disputes

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will be by one two hour seminar per week. Seminars will develop:

• the structure of the subject and the presently applicable principles and policies
• about the major controversies and problems existing in relation to the interpretation of the legal provisions
• draft legal instruments which are expected to change the law applicable

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Hill, C (2004). Maritime Law. London: Informa Law from Routledge Publishing Ltd..

Halsbury's Laws of England. LexisNexis.

D.C. Jackson (2005). The Enforcement of Maritime Claims.

Baughen, S (2015). Shipping Law. London: Routledge-Cavendish.

Kennedy and Rose, F (2017). Kennedy and Rose, F on The Law of Salvage. Sweet & Maxwell.

Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard (2014). Modern Maritime Law (Volumes 1 and 2) (Maritime and Transport Law Library) Hardcover. London: Informa Law from Routledge Publishing Ltd.

Meeson (2011). Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice. London: Informa Law from Routledge Publishing Ltd.

Reeder, J (QC) (2012). Brice on Maritime Law of Salvage. Sweet and Maxwell.

Marsden and Gault (2016). Marsden and Gault: Collisions at Sea. Sweet and Maxwell.

Routledge. Maritime Law.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External