Subjects:

Shipping, Transport and Maritime Law

Contents:

Nature, validity and construction of the contract

Parties to the contract

Agency

Charterparties

The Bill of Lading as a contract

Bills of Lading for goods on a chartered ship

Terms of the contact

Representations

Performance of contract: loading

The Bill of Lading as a document of title

Liability of shipowner for loss of, or damage to goods carried

Performance of the contract: the voyage

Performance of the contract: unloading

Demurrage

Freight

Time Charters

Through Bills of Lading, combined transportation, containers

Lien

Damages

The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1971

Jurisdiction and limitation of actions

Appendicies

Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992

Supreme Court Act 1981

Civil Jurisdiction and Judgements Act 1982

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and Limitation Convention 1976

Scrutton on Charterparties is a central work in the literature on charterparties. Examining over 100 new cases in the new, 21st edition, the work covers the general principles in the fields of time charters, voyage charters and demise charters. It clears up uncertainties in points of law, whilst illustrating their application using a wide variety of case material.

The organisation of the work is very clear, logical and accessible: its arrangement as a series of Articles covers all the specific topics of research a practitioner needs. The book covers charterparties as forms of commercial contract, and enables solicitors to draft better contracts, and barristers to test them.

• Focuses on the principles and is acknowledged for its clear and concise treatment of them
• Pinpoints criteria required for the nature, validity, construction of the contract, the parties to it and specific terms
• Considers the performance of the contract during loading, during the voyage and during unloading of cargo
• Defines bills of lading as contracts, and examines the liability of the shipowner for loss of or damage to goods
• Examines damages for failure to load or carry cargo properly or in reasonable time, and for not signing or presenting bills of lading
• Discusses limitation of liability
• Gives expert analysis of over 100 new cases showing how the principles of charterparties have been interpreted by the courts
• Written by generations of learned and authoritative commentators, whose conclusions are maintained into successive editions – the work has been very extensively cited in court