Lloyd's Shipping & Trade Law

Ship arrest remains the most efficient method to obtain security for maritime claims and is as a result attracting attention in the current shipping market. Edward Liu considers the two recent Hong Kong cases: The Bo Shi Ji 393 [2015] HKCFI 920; [2015] 3 HKLRD 424 and Arina Offshore JLT v Owners of the Ship or Vessel "Almojil 61" [2015] HKCA 268; [2015] 3 HKLRD 598.

On 30 September 2015, the workshop “Boat people: some legal and practical considerations relating to migration by sea” was organised by the Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Southampton. The first panel considered legal aspects of search and rescue as applicable in the context of boat people, and the second was dedicated to issues arising for the commercial shipping industry, with a talk also on the medical rights of rescued persons.

When the rights of states trump the rights of individualsThe Enrica Lexie Order promulgated on 24 August 20151The factsOn 15 February 2012, at about 16.30, two Italian marines were on the Italian-flagged oil tanker, MV Enrica Lexie, about 20.5 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala in southern India.