General information about Marine & Shipping Law studies at UCT.
Details the structure, aims and operation of the Shipping Law Unit and contains information and curriculae of shipping law courses offered through the Unit.
Details the structure, aims and operation of the Institute and contains information and curriculae of marine law courses offered through the Institute of Marine and Environmental Law. Also directs you to the Institute's own website.
Brief profiles of the Staff teaching Marine & Shipping Law at UCT and the present class of LLM Students. We have added a Cyberhome for our graduates in Marine and Shipping Law.
Students may connect to their own discussion forum at Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant.
Under broad categories of Marine Law Materials and Shipping Law Materials we provide the full texts of legislation and conventions for ready reference.
This section of the site is to us perhaps the most important: through it we aim to make our research materials more accessible.

An overview of the practice of maritime law in SA, including details of the SA Maritime Law Association MLA and names and addresses of its EXCO.

A maritime general interest page with snippets about some of the many shipping incidents which occur on the SA seaboard each year. Some result in litigation; too many result in casualties. Soon you will be able to download photos of the more spectacular mishaps.
Channel 16 has been discontinued
w.e.f. 1 March 2005
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Cape Town
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and to
Safmarine Limited
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for their continued support.


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Shipping Law Unit
University of Cape Town
Page updated: March 01, 2005