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Index

  • “anchor defendant” cases 295–303
  • anti-suit injunction 226–227; Brexit and 234–237; comity and 229–231; key considerations 227–229; mutual trust and 231–234
  • APIs 132–134
  • arbitration 88–89
  • balance of convenience 198–199
  • banking; technology-driven innovation in 126–129 see also digital banking
  • bills of lading 200
  • Bitcoin 78–79; arbitration and other jurisdictions 88–89; defined 79–82; foreign currency payments, as 86–88; international enforcement 91; judgments following proprietary claims 83–84; judgments in foreign currency 84–86; normal business currency, as 89–91
  • breach of charterparty 26–34 see also repudiatory breach
  • Brexit 226–227, 234–237; comity and 229–231; key considerations 227–229; mutual trust and 231–234
  • buyer; dismantling of vessel 65–77
  • carriage of goods by sea 312–313
  • causation 9–10, 193–194
  • charterer’s interests 57–58
  • charterparty see breach of charterparty
  • COGSA 1992 316–318
  • comity; anti-suit injunctions and 229–231
  • commercial insurance 113–124
  • commercial practices; emissions trading and 169–171
  • compensatory principle; damages and 4–5
  • conduct barring limitation; generally 269–276; proving recklessness 276–277
  • consequential losses 8–9
  • contract; measure of loss in 6–9
  • contractors; liability for 303–308
  • contractual damages 3–4, 15–16; damages and the compensatory principle 4–5; establishing net values 9–15; measure of loss in contract 6–9; net losses 5–6
  • control centres 139–154
  • cooperation 160
  • cooperation qualification 47–50
  • CO2 emissions; regulation 157–159 see also emissions
  • creativity, judicial 113–124
  • CII 166–169
  • cybersecurity 115–116
  • damages 26–34, 35–42; adequacy of 209–210; common law position 174–181; compensatory principle and 4–5; deductions 6, 9–16; law reform 181–184; limitations to and deductions from 9–15; negotiating 212–225 see also contractual damages; “negotiating damages”; punitive damages
  • damages in lieu 210–212
  • data collection 116–118, 144–146, 159, 161–162
  • data processing 121–124; granular 129–134
  • data standardisation 131–132
  • data transmission 118–120
  • delay 35–42
  • demolition 73–76
  • digital banking 125–126; granular data processing 129–134; liability regimes in digital banking 134–138; technology-driven innovation in banking services 126–129
  • dispute resolution 110–112
  • duty of care 292–295
  • early redelivery 43–47; cooperation qualification 47–50; legitimate interest question 50–60; suggestions to shipowners 60–64
  • EEXI model clause 164–166
  • emission reduction 155–156, 172–173; private law implications 164–172; regulatory roadmap 156–164
  • emissions trading 162–164, 169–172
  • enforcement 91, 200–206, 224–225; mandatory injunctions 197–198, 200–206; negative obligations 206–212; negotiating damages 212–224; specific performance 199, 200–206
  • ESG litigation 76
  • EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) 162–164; allowances clause 171–172
  • European Union (EU); emissions reduction 160–164
  • expectation losses 7
  • external factors 12–14
  • Exxon Valdez litigation 239–248
  • foreign currency; Bitcoin payments as 86–88; judgments in 84–86
  • funds 285–288
  • governmental agency; control centre and 147
  • granular data processing 129–134
  • greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; regulation 156–157 see also emissions
  • groups 20–21
  • independent contractor; control centre and 147, 153
  • indirect shareholding 23–24
  • injunctions 21–23
  • innovation see entry technology-driven innovation
  • insurance claims; common law position 174–181; law reform 181–184
  • insurance sector; Internet of Things and 114–115 see also commercial insurance; insurance claims
  • Internet of Things (IoT) 113–124
  • joint ventures; special purpose vehicles and 19–20
  • knock-for-knock agreements 20–21
  • land, control centre situated on 148
  • late payment; common law position 174–181; law reform 181–184
  • legitimate interest 50–60
  • letter of indemnity 200–206
  • liability 125–126; contractors, for 303–308; control centre, of 149–153; granular data processing 129–134; liability regimes in digital banking 134–138; technology-driven innovation in banking services 126–129; vicarious liability for punitive damages 241–247 see also liability in tort; limitation of liability
  • liability in tort 308–311; “anchor defendant” cases 295–303; climate change and third parties 307–308; contractors 303–307; parent companies and a direct duty of care 292–295
  • limitation of liability 154; conduct barring limitation 269–284; contracting out of the right to limit 288–289; effect of combination of funds 285–296; recklessness 276–277; salvage 289–291; timing 284–285; where to constitute a fund 287–288
  • losses; assessment of loss for damages for repudiatory breach 28–34; measure of loss in contract 6–9 see also net losses; reflective loss; third party loss
  • mandatory injunctions 197–198, 200–206
  • measure of loss 6–9, 193–194
  • mitigation 11–12, 26–34, 193–194
  • money; Bitcoin as 81–82
  • monitoring 143
  • mutual trust; anti-suit injunctions and 231–234
  • navigation 143–144
  • negative obligations; enforcement of 206–212
  • “negotiating damages” 212–224; negative obligations 206–212
  • net losses 5–6
  • net values 9–15
  • newbuilding vessels 157–158
  • open banking 132–134
  • operators see ship operators
  • parent companies 292–295
  • personnel; control centres, employed in 147–149
  • private law 164–172
  • prohibitory injunctions 206–207
  • property; Bitcoin as 80–81
  • proprietary claims; judgments in Bitcoin 83–84
  • punitive damages 238–239, 268; Batterton 253–267; Exxon Valdez 239–248; Townsend 248–253
  • reasonable time 187–191
  • recklessness 276–277
  • recourse 194
  • rectification 96–106
  • redelivery see early redelivery
  • reflective loss 17–25
  • regulation 113–124; emissions 156–164
  • reliance losses 7–8
  • remedies 95–96, 224–225; dispute resolution mechanisms 110–112; mandatory injunctions 197–198, 200–206; negative obligations 206–212; negotiating damages 212–224; rectification 96–106; rescission 106–110; specific performance 199, 200–206
  • remoteness 10–11, 193–194
  • repudiatory breach; assessment of loss for damages for 28–34
  • rescission 106–110
  • restrictive covenant 207
  • right to limit 154; contracting out of 288–289
  • salvage 289–291
  • seaworthiness; new attributes for 166
  • security, provision of 200–206
  • shareholding see indirect shareholding
  • ship; control centred situated on board 148–149; definition of 139–140
  • shipowner; control centre and 146, 152–153; obligations 166–167; right to refuse early redelivery 43–64
  • ship operators 155–156, 172–173; private law implications 164–172; regulatory roadmap 156–164
  • smart contracts 95–96; dispute resolution mechanisms 110–112; rectification 96–106; rescission 106–110
  • special purpose vehicles; joint ventures and 19–20
  • specific performance 199, 200–206
  • subsidiaries 20–21
  • sulphur; regulatory action 156–157
  • tax 14–15
  • technology-driven innovation; banking services 126–129
  • third parties, acts of 308–311; “anchor defendant” cases 295–303; climate change and 307–308; liability for contractors 303–307; parent companies and a direct duty of care 292–295
  • third party loss 312–313
  • timing 284–285
  • tort see liability in tort
  • unmanned ship, definition of 140
  • unmanned ship operations 139–154
  • vicarious liability 292–293; punitive damages, for 241–247
  • wreck removal 289–291

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