Shipping Law & Admiralty Jurisdiction
in South Africa
by
John Hare

Published by Juta & Co., Cape Town, 1 120 pages, on sale from May 1999. Periodic updates of the book will be maintained by the author on this website at <booknew.htm>.

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Shipping Law & Admiralty Jurisdiction in South Africa is the first comprehensive study of maritime law in South Africa since the Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act of 1983 broke the shackles of the limited reach of English Colonial admiralty jurisdiction — which paradoxically then still applied in the Republic of South Africa. Yet shipping law in the new South Africa remains essentially an English common law regime operating, not uncomfortably, with a rich overlay of the Roman-Dutch civilian law.

The work includes a detailed analysis of:

• Admiralty jurisdiction and practice in one of the most active casualty and arrest arenas of the maritime world.
• The new ship ownership, mortgage and registration regime in South Africa.
• Safety of life at sea, including the Safety Conventions, Port State Control, the ISM Code's pervasive effect on maritime law, and collision liability.
• The traditional English law of salvage (viewed against the 1989 Salvage Convention), towage, pilotage and port operation.
• The law of wreck, with particular emphasis on the interplay between occupatio and salvage in the light of decisions such as The Antipolis and The Central America.
• The legal regime on board merchant ships, including master and crew.
• An analysis of the international law of the carriage of goods by sea, focusing mainly on the Hague-Visby Rules with a guide to cargo claims and defences.
• The limitation of liability of the shipowner under the Hague-Visby Rules, 1957 and 1976 Conventions.
• The law of marine insurance, exploring extensively the common roots and synthesis of the English and civilian systems.

TO BUY:

First edition out of print. A fully revised second edition is planned for 2006. Available from all good bookstores selling Law Text Books, or may be ordered direct from:

COST:

Hardcover -- *SA Rands 795.00  ISBN 0-7021-5071-1
Softcover --  ISBN 0-7021-4812-1 -- SOLD OUT
(Prices include VAT but exclude Postage and Packing and are likely to increase in 2006)

* Publisher's recommended retail price which is subject to change without notice.
Prices charged by bookshops, including Juta's Bookshops, may vary. Juta's Bookshops and Juta Subscription services will, however, honour the above price on a "cash with order" basis or where payment is by credit card.

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Updated: 24 November 2005
Inquiries: Shipping Law Unit
University of Cape Town