maritime law, the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping. In English-speaking countries, “admiralty” is sometimes used synonymously, but in a strict sense the term refers to the jurisdiction and procedural law of courts whose origins may be traced to the office of Admiral. Altho...
Maritime lawyers specialised in Admiralty Law work for ship owners, charterers and cargo owners, while maritime insurers deal with the legal issues of maritime casualties, such as ship fires, collisions, sinkings and groundings, as well as the subsequent pollution, towage and wreck removal. Hong ...
“Maritime commerce traverses interstate and international boundaries, so when a maritime accident or dispute occurs, time-consuming and difficult questions can arise about while law governs,” he continued. “By identifying the governing law in advance, choice-of-law provisions allow parties to avoi...
Fifth Circuit established test to determine whether non-oilfield contracts are maritime and held that a contract to build a concrete rail on a dock in the Mississippi River that required the use of vessels for the construction was a maritime contract and admiralty law applied to the contract in ...
ADMIRALTY Maritime patrol and law enforcement, investigation and evidence collection, emergency response, maritime search and rescue, marine ship oil spill, sewage monitoring, navigation mark inspection, channel survey and other provincial regulatory business areas. ...