Maritime Law and Practice in Hong Kong, Third Edition is the definitive practitioner text on maritime law and practice in Hong Kong. Written by a team of leading maritime law practitioners and academics, the text provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of maritime law. The book has an accessible style and clear illustrations of the latest cases from major maritime jurisdictions, international conventions, and references to the latest local issues.

What's new in this edition:

1. For ship registration, legal conditions set forth for ship registration in Hong Kong and legal rules for provisional, ownership, demise, mortgage, and other types of ship registration in Hong Kong;
2. For bareboat charter, notable amendments made in the standard contract "Barecon 2017", compared with its predecessors "Barecon 89" and "Barecon 2001";
3. For the Convention of Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 pertaining to wreck removal expenses, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal decision in The Star Centurion and The Antea and the Federal Court of Australia Court of Appeal in The Goliath about the Convention of Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 pertaining to wreck removal expenses;
4. The Marine Safety (Alcohol and Drugs) Ordinance (Cap.649) about drink and drugs boating in Hong Kong; and
5. For maritime arbitration, case statistics for key maritime arbitration centers from 2010 to 2024 including not publicly available statistics, and the divergences in approach about the governing law of arbitration agreement between Hong Kong and England and Wales under case law and statute.
6. The Star Antares [2024] 1 Lloyd's Rep 342 as to the interpretation of general average "according to York Antwerp Rules (“YAR”) 1994, or any subsequent modification thereof” under Clause 3 of the Congenbill 1994 and whether the same would incorporate the YAR 2016.
7. A complete rewritten Chapter 4 Bill of Lading with Hong Kong focus by seasoned practitioners.

Marsden and Gault forms part of the highly respected British Shipping Law Series. It serves as an in-depth guide to the specialist and self-contained area of Collision and Loss in maritime law examining recent cases and convention developments. The commentary proceeds seamlessly from navigational fault and the interpretation of the Collision Regulations, towards special liability regimes and pollution.

Updates to the 16th edition include:

• Important developments in the law of limitation
• Changes in the rules on jurisdiction
• Developments in the law of damages relevant to collisions
• The new rules on collision statements of case
• Amendments to the Collision Regulations

The 16th edition also covers all relevant cases, including:

• Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Co Ltd [2024] UKSC 6; [2025] A.C. 406 (damages and causation)
• The Panamax Alexander [2022] EWHC 2828 (Admlty); [2023] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 83 (effect of local navigation rules)
• Nautical Challenge Ltd v Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd [2022] EWHC 206 (Admlty) (The re-trial of a collision action in light of the Supreme Court decision in Evergreen Marine (UK) Ltd v Nautical Challenge Ltd [2021] UKSC 6)
• Denver Maritime Ltd v Belpareil AS [2024] EWHC 362 (Admlty); [2024] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 323 (causation and proactive duties when collision possible)
• The MSC Flaminia [2025] UKSC 14; [2025] 1 W.L.R. 1835 (limitation)
• MV Pacific Pearl Co Ltd v NYK Orpheus Corp [2022] EWHC 2828 (Admlty); [2023] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 83 (security)
• Splitt Chartering APS v Saga Shipholding Norway AS [2021] EWCA Civ 1880; [2022] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 170 (limitation)
• FMG Hong Kong Shipping Ltd, the Demise Charterers of FMG SYDNEY v Owners of the MSC APOLLO [2023] EWHC 328 (Admlty) (the crossing rule)
• The Star Centurion and The Antea [2023] HKCFA 20; [2024] 2 Lloyd's Rep 435 (limitation)
• UniCredit Bank GmbH v RusChemAlliance LLC [2024] UKSC 30; [2024] 3 W.L.R. 659 (foreign arbitration agreements)
• Monford Management Ltd (Owners of the KIVELI) v Afina Navigation Ltd (Owners of the AFINA I) [2025] EWHC 1185 (Admlty) (Rules 14 and 15 of the Collision Regulations)
• X-PRESS MAHANADA, (Owners of the) v BURGAN, (Owners of the) [2025] EWHC 721 (Admlty) (apportionment in collision cases)

Admiralty Claims, presents a comprehensive single-volume treatment of admiralty claims aimed particularly at practitioners. Covers the rules and principles peculiar to admiralty claims and explains their relationship with related areas of substantive and adjectival law. Investigates the theoretical underpinnings of the subject, in order to enhance understanding and to indicate novel lines of enquiry. Contains a treatment in terms of detail and theoretical and practical methodology which is clearly superior to currently available treatments. Offers an in-depth treatment of the whole of Admiralty Claims and jurisdiction. Combines both a principled and a practical approach. Highlights and explains the distinction between admiralty and ordinary claims rules. Incorporates discussion of international conventions, European Union law and the expected effects of Brexit. Has been written by two of the leading UK academics in maritime law The second edition includes the following updates: The chapter on the jurisdiction of the English courts has been greatly shortened and simplified, including coverage of anti-suit relief, now that the UK will not be ratifying the Lugano Convention and has given effect to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005. Other Brexit-related developments have included streamlining the chapter on insolvency in the light of the falling away of the EU Insolvency Regulation and the resulting universal application of the Model Law on transborder insolvency. Changes to the CPR to reintroduce a limited right to start at least some proceedings within the admiralty jurisdiction in the County Court Case law has been comprehensively updated, including on: Limitation of liability, notably in The MSC Flaminia [2023] EWCA Civ 1007 and The Stema Barge II [2021] EWCA Civ 1880 on entitlement to limit; time-bars, with the confirmation in The Giant Ace (No. 2) [2023] EWCA Civ 569 of the width of Art III r 6 of the Hague-Visby Rules; and anti-suit relief, with confirmation by the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court in Unicredit Bank GmbH v Ruschemalliance LLC (2024) that it is available to protect an obligation to arbitrate in a non-English seat

Summerskill on Laytime, a key and established title in this specialist field, comprehensively covers laytime and demurrage under English law. Ideal for practitioners in the field, this title presents the principles behind laytime, the standard clauses, interruptions, suspensions, demurrage, detention and dispatch. The seventh edition updates the text to take account of key case law, including: The Court of Appeal decisions in Limbungan v Classic Maritime and in K Line v Priminds (The Eternal Bliss) At first instance, in The Aconcagua Bay the “always accessible” clause has been held to cover leaving a berth as well as entering it, contrary to what had previously been decided by the tribunal in London Arbitration 11/97. The effect of owners’ breach of contract in caring for the cargo on the amount of demurrage incurred by charterers was considered in The Santa Isabella. In the Muammer Yagci the laytime exception of ‘government interferences’ in cl28 of the 1999 Sugar Charterparty was held to cover seizure of cargo by the customs authorities in Algiers following the identification of a discrepancy between the cargo and the relevant documents presented by the receivers. There have been several decisions on the applicability of time bar provisions for bringing demurrage claims, including: The MTM Hong Kong, The Amalie Essberger, The MT Maria, The Ocean Neptune, and Glencore v OMV. London Arbitration 13/19, where the Tribunal found that a Notice of Readiness cannot be validly given when the vessel is still on the move London Arbitration 19/18 where the Tribunal found that consequential delay on the vessel’s arrival at the discharging port due to delay on completing loading due to engine problems did not interrupt demurrage as the fault of the shipowner needed to be contemporaneous with the delay and the effect of bad weather on loading and discharging operations in London Arbitration 12/19 and London Arbitration 21/19.