Shipping / Transportation Law

Goods in Transit, 2nd Edition

Edited by Paul Bugden · Dr Simone Lamont-Black
Sweet & Maxwell U.K. December 2009

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781847037725
Publisher
Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
Publication
December 2009
Format
Hardback , 1020 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Providing an in-depth treatment of the law of freight forwarding and carriage of goods, Goods in Transit:

  • Provides an in-depth treatment of the law of freight forwarding and carriage of goods
  • Takes into consideration many areas of commercial, shipping, contract, bailment, property and transport law which relate to forwarding and carriage of goods law
  • Deals with the law relating to documents of title, possession, ownership and rights of suit in contract, tort and bailment
  • Takes into consideration the increase in globalisation and international trade
  • Covers the new UNCITRAL Convention on Goods Carried Wholly or Partly by Sea
  • Includes a new chapter on project and heavy lift forwarding
  • Covers contract and agency law in more detail
  • Discusses in detail all the important cases which have occurred since the last edition
  • Includes the Trade Condition, Forms and Terms, SITPRO Standard Form Aligned Documents, International Carriage Conventions and their Domestic Enabling Statutes, Domestic Statute Law and Typical Tasks Performed by a FCL Multimodal Transit in the appendices

Table of Contents

  • The different roles of the freight forwarder
  • Agency
  • The freight forwarder as principal contractor
  • Ownership, possession, custody and risk
  • Documents of title
  • Carriage documents in international convention carriage
  • Documents in common use in international trade and carriage
  • Estoppel and conclusiveness of statements and entries in carriage documents
  • Contract
  • Misrepresentation
  • Bailment
  • Tort
  • Restitution and waiver of tort
  • Assignment and other transfer of rights of suit and obligation
  • Damages
  • Carriers in the common law
  • Carriage under international transport conventions
  • Liability regimes
  • Container transport
  • Recourse and related rights of contribution
  • Incorporation of trade terms of business and bills of lading into contracts
  • Contract and repudiation
  • Deviation, exemption clauses and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
  • Limitation of liability under contract, statute and international convention carriage
  • Time bars under common law and under statute
  • Charges and payment
  • Rights of lien
  • Warranties and indemnities provided to the carrier by the merchant and other parties
  • Liability of agents to third parties
  • Liability for dangerous goods
  • Conflicts of interest and who to pay
  • Electronic data interchange
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