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The Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sales of Ships


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INDEX

  • admiralty practice 2.14–30
  • admiralty proceedings: tensions between special circumstances and 6.14–28;
  • ancillary protective powers: ship arrest 2.146–153;
  • Anglo-common law approach 4.1–4.5;
    • Beijing Convention 4.32–68;
    • Commonwealth approach 4.24–31;
    • English approach 4.6–23
    • judicial ship sale process 4.6;
    • legal effect of sales 4.7–13;
    • recognition and enforcement of sales by courts 4.14–23
  • arrest see ship arrest
  • attachment: arrest distinguished from 5.9–15
  • best possible price 6.15–17
  • Bright Star, The 1.55–63
  • certificate of judicial sale 1.32–34, 2.110–113;
  • clean title 2.124–131, 6.23–24, 6.52–53
  • coming to force 1.52–54
  • comment: certificate of sale 2.120;
  • comparative law perspective 3.1–2, 3.94–97;
    • proprietary rights 3.10–12;
    • satisfaction of maritime creditors 3.26–93;
    • security rights 3.13–25;
    • sui generis nature of ship 3.3–9
  • court of judicial sale: jurisdiction 1.41–43
  • creditors, satisfaction of 3.26–30;
    • express and implied procedural guarantees 3.43–46;
    • framework 3.31–32;
    • international effects of judicial sale 3.47–3.52;
    • limits to effects of judicial sale 3.65–73;
    • main provisions 3.37–42;
    • relationship of Convention with treaties and national law 3.74–93;
    • remedial action against enforcement proceedings 3.53–64;
    • scope of application 3.33–36
  • digital-first strategy 6.34–40
  • digital platforms, third-party 6.29–77
  • ecosystem orchestration in online judicial sales 6.41–46;
    • addressing concern about 6.69–77;
    • concern about 6.47
  • effects of judicial sale 4.49–50;
  • enforcement 3.26–30, 6.26–28;
    • express and implied procedural guarantees 3.43–46;
    • foreign judgments in United States 5.3–8;
    • framework 3.31–32;
    • international effects of judicial sale 3.47–3.52;
    • limits to effects of judicial sale 3.65–73;
    • main provisions 3.37–42;
    • relationship of Convention with treaties and national law 3.74–93;
    • remedial action against 3.53–64;
    • scope of application 3.33–36
  • English admiralty practice 2.14–30
  • evaluation 4.59–68
  • evolution of Convention 1.64–66;
    • The Bright Star 1.55–63;
    • principal provisions 1.23–54;
    • process leading up to adoption 1.1–13;
    • second signing ceremony 1.19–22;
    • signing ceremony in Beijing 1.14–18
  • exclusions 2.34
  • fairness to all parties 6.18–20
  • federal maritime law: recognition of foreign judicial sales 5.16–27

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  • flag state registration 1.35–40
  • foreign judgements: recognition and enforcement in United States 5.3–8
  • foreign judicial ship sales 4.1–4.5, 5.1–5.8, 5.28–33;
    • arrest and attachment distinguished 5.9–15;
    • Beijing Convention 4.32–68;
    • Commonwealth approach 4.24–31;
    • English approach 4.6–23;
    • federal maritime law 5.16–27
  • form of certificate 2.115–119
  • general notice of sale 2.95–104
  • harnessing procedural advantage 6.6–13
  • IMO as repository 1.26–31, 2.102–104, 2.139–142;
  • impartiality 6.21–22
  • independence of court 6.21–22
  • in rem proceedings 6.4
  • integrity of court 6.21–22
  • intermediary fiduciary, repository as 6.62–68
  • international boundaries, notice across 2.105
  • international effects of judicial sale 3.47–52
  • international law framework 2.34
  • international treaties: relationship of Convention with 3.74–93
  • judicial sales of ships 2.37, 2.106, 3.1–2, 3.94–97, 4.1–4.5, 5.1–5.8, 5.28–33;
    • acquisition of clean title 2.57–82;
    • arrest and attachment distinguished 5.9–15;
    • Beijing Convention 4.32–68;
    • best possible price 6.15–17;
    • certificate 2.110–2.131;
    • clean title 6.23–24;
    • Commonwealth approach 4.24–31;
    • effect of 4.49–50;
    • English approach 4.6–23;
    • fairness to all parties 6.18–20;
    • federal maritime law 5.16–27;
    • harnessing procedural advantage 6.6–13;
    • impartiality, independence and integrity 6.21–22;
    • in rem proceedings 6.4;
    • international effects of 3.47–52;
    • jurisdiction of court of judicial sale 1.41–43;
    • limits to effects of 3.65–73;
    • nature of sale 2.38–2.56;
    • notice of 2.83–2.105;
    • online sales through third-party digital platforms 6.29–77;
    • process under Convention 4.51–56;
    • proprietary rights 3.10–12;
    • recognition and enforcement 6.26–28;
    • satisfaction of maritime creditors 3.26–93;
    • security rights 3.13–25;
    • ship arrest 6.5;
    • special circumstances 6.14–28;
    • sui generis nature of ship 3.3–9
  • jurisdiction: court of judicial sale 1.41–43;
  • legal effect of certificate 2.121–123
  • legal treatment of ship, significance in relation to proprietary rights 3.10–12
  • limitation 1.51, 2.34
  • limits to effects of judicial sale 3.65–73
  • maritime creditors, satisfaction of 3.26–30;
    • express and implied procedural guarantees 3.43–46;
    • framework 3.31–32;
    • international effects of judicial sale 3.47–3.52;
    • limits to effects of judicial sale 3.65–73;
    • main provisions 3.37–42;
    • relationship of Convention with treaties and national law 3.74–93;
    • remedial action against enforcement proceedings 3.53–64;
    • scope of application 3.33–36
  • model certificate of sale 2.114
  • national level: relationship of Convention with 3.74–93;
  • notice of sale 1.26–31, 2.83–105;
  • online sales of ships 6.1–3, 6.78–82;
    • judicial sales of ships 6.4–28;
    • third-party digital platforms 6.29–77
  • overriding objective 2.32–34
  • platforms: Beijing Convention may facilitate online judicial sales 6.48–77;
    • platform economy results in digital-first strategy 6.34–40
  • policy see public policy
  • private international law perspective: proprietary rights 3.10–12;
  • procedural advantage 6.6–13
  • process of judicial sale 4.51–56
  • proprietary rights 3.10–12
  • provisions, principal 1.23;
    • Certificate of Judicial Sale 1.32–34;
    • coming into force 1.52–54;
    • flag state registration and ship arrest 1.35–40;

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    • jurisdiction of court of judicial sale 1.41–43;
    • limitation 1.51;
    • notice of sale and IMO as repository 1.26–31;
    • primary provision 1.24;
    • public policy 1.44–50;
    • ship arrest 1.25
  • public announcement 2.97–101
  • public policy 1.44–50, 2.168–182;
  • recipients of notice of sale 2.88
  • recognition of foreign judicial ship sales 4.57–58, 5.1–5.8, 5.33, 6.26–28;
    • arrest and attachment distinguished 5.9–15;
    • Beijing Convention 5.28–32;
    • federal maritime law 5.16–27
  • registration see flag state registration; ship registration
  • remedial action against enforcement proceedings 3.53–64
  • repository: as intermediary fiduciary 6.62–68;
  • sale see judicial sales of ships; notice of sale; online sales of ships
  • satisfaction of maritime creditors 3.26–30;
    • express and implied procedural guarantees 3.43–46;
    • framework 3.31–32;
    • international effects of judicial sale 3.47–3.52;
    • limits to effects of judicial sale 3.65–73;
    • main provisions 3.37–42;
    • relationship of Convention with treaties and national law 3.74–93;
    • remedial action against enforcement proceedings 3.53–64;
    • scope of application 3.33–36
  • security rights 3.13–25;
    • national level 3.13–20;
    • supranational/transnational level 3.21–25
  • ship arrest 1.25, 2.145–153, 6.5;
    • attachment distinguished from 5.9–15;
    • and flag state registration 1.35–40;
    • public policy 2.175–178
  • ship registration 2.154–167;
  • signing ceremony: in Beijing 1.14–18;
  • special circumstances 6.14–28;
    • best possible price 6.15–17;
    • clean title 6.23–24;
    • fairness to all parties 6.18–20;
    • impartiality, independence and integrity of court 6.21–22;
    • recognition and enforcement 6.26–28
  • specific notice of sale 2.89–94
  • subsequent purchaser 2.161–167
  • sui generis nature of ship 3.3–9
  • supervisory jurisdiction 2.132–138
  • supranational/transnational level: security rights 3.21–25
  • Taobao 6.31–46
  • textual analysis 2.1–2.13, 2.183–194;
  • third-party digital platforms 6.29–77
  • treaties see international treaties
  • United States 5.1–5.8, 5.33;
    • arrest and attachment distinguished 5.9–15;
    • Beijing Convention 5.28–32;
    • federal maritime law 5.16–27

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