Legal Issues Relating To Time Charterparties

This book addresses all the major questions and issues that arise in connection with time charterparties, examining them in a logical manner, progressively tracing the subject from the creation to the termination of the contract.

All the salient and central legal aspects of time charterparties are examined, with the law analysed in its commercial context, particularly in relation to the various ways in which time charterparties may be used in shipping and international trade.

1. Standard Forms: the BIMCO experience, Grant Hunter
2. Construing terms in time charterparties Beginning of a new era or business as usual?,Dr Baris Soyer
3. Ascertaining the charter period,Paul Herring
4. Safe ports and places, Professor Howard Bennett
5. Seaworthiness and the “Hong Kong Fir” decision, Mark Hamsher
6. Indemnities in time charters, David Foxton QC
7. Hire, off-hire and contractual remedies, Professor D Rhidian Thomas
8. Assignees of hire: how fare can they ignore charters’ claims against owners?, Professor Andrew Tettenborn
9. Time charterparties and bills of lading, Emeritus Professor Francis Reynolds QC
10. Clauses paramount in time charters, Yvonne Baatz
11. War, terror, piracy and frustration in a time charter context, Professor Keith Michel
12. Termination rights under time chartersJohn D. Kimball
13. Cargo claims and the Inter-Club Agreement, Dr Theodora Nikaki
14. Containerisation, slot charters and the law, Christopher Hancock QC
15. Damages for breach of time charter: some recent developments, Andrew Taylor
16. The effectiveness of liens as a self-help remedy?, Professor Richard W. Williams