The arrest of sea-going ships: a new convention

Kashimana Tsumba, BL (Nigeria), LLM (Southampton) Counsel, Tsumba & Tsumba, Legal Practitioner

The 1952 Arrest Convention was updated by a joint UNCTAD/IMO intergovernmental group of experts. The issues that led to the update were right of arrest, the sum for security, and the adequacy of the list of claims giving rise to a right of arrest to mention a few. The resulting Convention will enter into force between the ten countries which have acceded to it on 14 September 2011. This article seeks to compare the 1952 and the 1999 Arrest Conventions and assess the future impact of the 1999 Convention on ship arrest.