Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice
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Index
Index
- Accounts 2.45–2.49
- Acknowledgment of service A.1.1.1.5
- Acknowledgment of service (admiralty limitation claim) A.1.1.1.22
- Administration orders 3.99–3.110
- Admiralty and Commercial Registry 1.3
- Admiralty Court of the Isle of Man 1.31
- Admiralty limitation claim A.1.5.1
- Admiralty Marshal
- Admiralty Registrar 1.4
- Admiralty Registrar, references to 9.1–9.23
- amendments 9.15
- appeals 9.21–9.23
- assistance of assessors 9.4–9.6
- case management conference 9.16
- costs 9.18–9.20
- defence in 9.13
- discretionary 9.3
- hearing 9.17
- no reference unless clear something is due 9.9
- order for 9.11
- ordinary rules of evidence 9.7
- particulars of claim 9.12
- pleadings 9.14
- prior to judgement 9.10
- procedure 9.11–9.17
- questions of law 9.8
- types of claims 9.2
- Admiralty statements of case A.1.2
- Aircraft 2.29
- jurisdiction over 2.177
- Appeals
- Application and undertaking for arrest and custody A.1.1.1.7
- Applications for general limitations decree A.1.1.1.25, A.1.5.10
- Application for judgement in default A.1.1.1.16
- Application for restricted limitation decree A.1.1.1.23, A.1.5.8
- Appraisement 4.108
- purposes other than sale 4.110
- sale, and see Sale
- Appraisement and sale pendent lite 4.127–4.133
- Arrest 1.57, 4.30–4.88
- ADM 4 4.49
- ADM 5 4.50. 4.51
- after judgement 4.43
- amount of security 4.83
- cargo under arrest in ship not under arrest 4.72, 4.73
- caution against 4.45–4.47
- discretion to issue notwithstanding failure to comply with rules 4.56
- disputes as to value of property arrested 4.84–4.87
- effect 4.34
- excessive security 4.91
- execution of warrant 4.60–4.62
- form of security 4.88
- no cross–undertaking in damages or counter–security
- no discretion not to issue warrant 4.55
- no further or special reason required 4.58
- no requirement to give full and frank disclosure 4.52–4.54
- notice to consul 4.44
- obtaining security for claim in AM 4.31
- period of validity of warrant 4.59
- practicalities 4.63–4.77
- presence of arrested ship affecting port operation 4.77
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- procedure to obtain 4.41
- property under 4.64–4.68
- provision of security and release 4.78–4.83
- release, effect of 4.80–4.82
- security proves insufficient 4.92
- ship under arrest but cargo not under arrest 4.69–4.71
- support of arbitral proceedings 4.33
- support of foreign proceedings 4.32
- third parties interested in property under 4.74–4.76
- time for applications 4.41–4.42
- wrongful 4.35–4.40
- Arrest Convention 1952 3.148–3.150
- Athens Convention 1974 3.155
- Bail 4.89, 4.90
- Beneficial owner 3.42–3.59
- Bottomry 2.145–2.147
- Brexit
- exercise of jurisdiction, and 3.164
- Brussels Convention
- Capable of being used in navigation backhoe dredger 2.24
- certificate of service A.1.1.1.11.1
- Charge 2.55
- Cinque Port Commissioners 1.28
- Cinque ports
- source materials A.2.1.2
- Civil procedure reform nomenclature 1.58
- Claim arising from agreement relating to carriage of goods in ship or hire of ship 2.76, 2.77
- Claim for damage done by ship 2.57–2.61
- Claim for damage received by ship 2.56
- Claim for loss of or damage to goods carried in ship 2.74, 2.75
- no maritime lien 2.75
- Claim form (Admiralty limitation claim) A.1.1.1.18
- notes for defendant A.1.1.1.19
- Claim forms 4.1–4.25, A.1.1.1, A.1.1.2
- amendment 4.12
- effect of issue 4.9
- issue 4.1–4.11
- issued against more than one ship 4.2
- may not be issued by fax 4.10
- notes for completing A.1.1.1.3
- notes for replying to A.1.1.1.4
- parties may be described and need not be named 4.4–4.6
- prescribed 4.1–4.9
- renewal of validity 4.11
- service 4.15–4.25 see also Service of claim form
- service on second ship possible where mistake as to first ship served 4.3
- Claim in personam
- Claim in rem
- advantages 3.13
- beneficial owner 3.42–3.59 see also Beneficial owner
- claims against sister ships 3.40, 3.41
- claims in personam, and 3.5–3.11
- claims irrespective of ownership 3.33
- claims limited by considerations of ownership 3.38, 3.39
- claims which may be brought 3.32–3.59
- enforcement by sale of ship 3.14
- enforcement of foreign judgement in rem 3.30, 3.31
- European jurisdictional law, and 3.4
- foreign sovereign state, and 3.10
- issue or service of claim form acknowledged 3.18–3.23
- judgment not bar to subsequent claim in personam 3.24–3.28
- nature of 3.2–3.4, 3.5–3.11
- other charge 3.35–3.37
- personal liability on part of shipowner 3.26
- quasi 3.2–3.4, 3.12–3.17
- two categories 3.2–3.4
- Claims required to be brought in Admiralty Court 1.6
- Collision actions A.1.4
- source material A.2.5
- Collision claims 7.1–7.161
- admissibility of MAIB reports 7.104–7.106
- appeals 7.154–7.161
- apportionment of liability 7.110–7.138
- applies between vessels at fault 7.127
- applies to vessels and cargo 7.128
- claims by cargo owners 7.129
- claims for loss of life or personal injury 7.132–7.134
- court must apportion unless impossible 7.116–7.123
- fault of vessels 7.124–7.126
- liability limited, where 7.130
- loss of or damage to ships and cargo 7.111, 7.112
- more than two ships at fault 7.115
- only causative fault is relevant 7.113
- ships at fault need not have been in collision 7.114
- Article 30 of Brussels I Regulation 7.10, 7.11
- Brussels I Regulation 7.6–7.9
- case management conference 7.77, 7.78
- case management in cases involving electronic track data 7.79
- contributions between ships at fault 7.135–7.138
- costs budgeting 7.81
- costs in 7.139–7.153
- counterclaims 7.45–7.48
- cross–claims 7.45, 7.49–7.50
- definition 7.1
- disclosure after issue of proceedings 7.37
- duty to prevent electronic track data 7.35
- fast track measures 7.80
- initial case management 7.38
- foreign court surveys and enquiries 7.107
- in personam 7.2, 7.3
- in rem 7.4
- must be commenced in Admiralty Court 7.1
- nautical assessors 7.82–7.103 see also Nautical assessors
- no pre–action protocol 7.32
- pre–action duty of disclosure and mutual exchange of electronic track data 7.36
- pre–action rules of preservation and disclosure of electronic track data 7.33
- procedure 7.32–7.109
- skeleton arguments 7.109
- statements of case 7.39–7.44
- amending 7.62–7.69
- claims not requiring 7.42
- contents 7.51–7.53
- costs 7.70
- defendant’s 7.45
- difficulties in completing 7.54–7.60
- failure to file 7.73–7.76
- function and effect 7.61
- in lieu of ordinary statement of case 7.44
- interrogatories as to contents 7.22
- notice of filing 7.43
- pleading blind 7.40
- stay on forum non conveniens grounds 7.12–7.31
- VDR evidence 7.34
- witness evidence 7.108
- Collision Convention 1952 3.151, 3.152
- Collision statement of case A.1.1.1.6, A.2.5.6
- Colonial courts
- source materials A.2.1.3
- Colonial Courts of Admiralty 1.32
- Common law possessory liens 6.21–6.30
- Compulsory winding up of companies 3.68–3.97
- appraisement and sale 3.84, 3.85
- arrest of property 3.81–3.85
- automatic stay of proceedings 3.86
- commencement 3.69
- effect of claim in rem 3.75
- issue of claim form in rem 3.76–3.78
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- service of claim form in rem 3.79
- statutory provisions 3.70–3.74
- Construction, repair or equipment of ship 2.107, 2.108
- no maritime lien 2.108
- Costs
- Counterclaims
- County courts 1.15–1.21
- Court first seised 3.158–3.160
- Court of Admiralty of the Cinque Ports 1.22–1.27
- CPR Part 61 1.5, 1.6
- Cross border insolvency 3.115–3.164
- Crown immunity 3.60–3.63
- Declaration as to inability of defendant to file and serve statement of case under decree of limitation A.1.1.1.28, A.1.5.17
- Declaration in support of application of warrant of arrest A.1.1.1.8
- Default proceedings 4.26–4.29
- Defective ship, apparel or equipment 2.69, 2.70
- Defence to admiralty limitation claim A.1.1.1.21,A.1.5.12
- Defendant’s claim in limitation claim A.1.1.1.27, A.1.5.16
- Derelict 2.156
- Disbursements 2.128–2.136
- Distribution of fund in court 6.32–6.79
- Admiralty Marshal’s expenses 6.33
- claims for costs 6.78
- costs of producer of fund 6.34, 6.35
- delay in asserting priority 6.77
- power to reopen order for priority 6.79
- prima facie order of priorities 6.38–6.61
- claims of holders of maritime liens rank first 6.39
- claims of mortgagees 6.40–6.43
- mortgages of foreign ships 6.63, 6.64
- mortgages of unregistered British ships 6.62
- personal liability of one claimant to another 6.76
- ranking of maritime liens inter se 6.66–6.74
- ranking of mortgagees inter se 6.51–6.61
- ranking of statutory liens inter se 6.65
- statutory rights of action in rem 6.44–6.50
- priorities and private international law 6.37
- priority of competing claims 6.36
- unconscionable conduct 6.77
- Dock charges or dues 2.107, 2.108
- no maritime lien 2.108
- Domicile 3.123–3.126
- Droits of Admiralty 2.153
- Electronic filing 1.7
- European domiciled defendant sued in personam in England 3.140–3.143
- Exclusion of liability 8.32–8.39
- Exercise of jurisdiction 3.1–3.164
- Foreign sovereign immunity 3.64, 3.65
- Forfeiture 2.148
- Formal investigations 1.34 see also Wreck inquiries
- General average 2.137–2.144
- General limitations decree A.1.1.1.26
- General limitation decree A.1.5.11
- Gold clause agreement 5.13–5.15
- Goods or materials supplied to ship 2.104–2.106
- no maritime lien 2.106
- Group litigation orders 8.146
- Hamburg Rules 1978 3.156
- High Court
- source materials A.2.1.1
- High seas, acts done on 2.168
- Historical origins 1.1
- Hovercraft
- Indemnity in respect of statutory compensation 2.73
- Insolvency 3.66–3.117
- Inspection of ship or other property 4.140, 4.141
- International Convention of Civil Liability for Oil
- Pollution Damage 1969 3.154
- Interest, power to award 2.169
- Jet ski 2.10
- Judges of Admiralty Court 1.2
- Judicial Committee Act 1833
- text A.2.1.2.2
- Jurisdiction
- source materials A.2.2
- Jurisdictions under international conventions 3.145–3.164
- Laches 5.51–5.55
- Limitation actions
- source materials A.2.6
- Limitation claims 8.1–8.160, A.1.5
- Limitation fund 8.87–8.98
- amended Athens Convention 8.94–8.98
- Article 11 of 1976 Convention 8.122–8.124
- constitution 8.139–8.140
- legal 8.140
- disputes between claimants against 8.152
- distribution 8.154–8.157
- financial 8.141
- limits for loss of life and personal injury 8.89
- limits for passenger claims 8.91–8.93
- mechanics of contributing 8.142–8.144
- proceedings to establish 8.129–8.133
- tonnage 8.88
- Limitation of actions 5.1–5.71
- foreign limitation period 5.56–5.71
- laches 5.51–5.55 see also Laches
- one year time bar 5.2–5.15
- salvage claims 5.45
- source materials A.2.4
- three–year period 5.46–5.50
- two–year time bar 5.16–5.45
- 2002 Protocol to Athens Convention 5.28, 5.29
- Athens Convention 1974 5.26, 5.27
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- claims made in limitation action 5.44
- claims under inter–club agreement 5.23, 5.24
- contracting states 5.18
- extending time under Merchant Shipping Act 1995 5.32–5.43
- Hamburg Rules 5.17
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 5.30–5.44
- passenger claims against carrying ship 5.25
- Rotterdam Rules 5.21, 5.22
- time bar provision 5.19, 5.20
- Limitation of liability 8.1–8.160
- 1924 Convention 8.13
- 1957 Convention 8.14
- 1976 Convention 8.15–8.17
- 1996 Protocol 8.18
- Amended 1976 Convention 8.24
- Article 11of 1976 Convention a jurisdictional provision, whether 8.121
- cargo claims in collision cases 8.153
- charterers 8.51–8.59
- claim 8.106–8.133
- claims in respect of which liability limited 8.44, 8.67–8.69
- claims settled by claimant 8.151
- conduct barring 8.78–8.86
- contracting out 8.77
- costs in claims 8.158–8.160
- counterclaims, and 8.74–8.76
- defence, as 8.102–8.104
- development in English Law 8.5–8.11
- dock owners 8.41
- English law today 8.20
- group litigation orders 8.146
- harbour authorities 8.41
- hazardous and noxious substances 8.23
- history 8.2–8.4
- IMO Resolution LEG.5 (aa) 8.18, 8.19
- insurer of liability 8.65
- international Conventions 8.12–8.19
- issue of claim form 8.136, 8.137
- juridical nature 8.25–8.30
- limitation fund 8.45
- loss of right 8.48, 8.77–8.86
- no admission of liability 8.49
- no limitations against claims for salvage and general average 8.73
- non–EU defendants 8.125–8.128
- nuclear damage claims 8.22
- NVOCCs 8.62
- obtaining decree 8.105
- oil pollution 8.99–8.101
- origin 8.2,8.3
- owner of ship 8.51–8.59
- persons entitled to limit 8.42, 8.49, 8.50
- persons for whom shipowners and salvors responsible 8.64
- pilotage authorities 8.47
- pilots 8.47
- procedure after obtaining decree 8.147
- procedure for filing of claims 8.149
- procedure to obtain decree 8.145
- procedure to set aside decree 8.148
- proceedings constituting limitation fund 8.118
- public policy, and 8.1
- salvor 8.63
- Schedule 7 to Merchant Shipping Act 1995 8.24
- service of claim form 8.138
- slot charterers 8.60, 8.61
- status, and 8.43
- whatever the basis of liability 8.70–8.72
- Limitation of liability claims 3.144
- jurisdiction 3.144
- Loss of life 2.72
- MAIB reports 7.104–7.106
- Marine accident investigations 1.33
- Maritime lien 1.43–1.55, 2.67
- Master
- Merchant Shipping Act courts and inquiries A.1.3
- Mortgage 2.54
see also Ship mortgages
- chattels, of 10.42
- choses in action, of 10.43
- definition 10.34
- distinguished from absolute transfer 10.37
- distinguished from charge 10.41
- distinguished from lien 10.40
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- equitable interest, of 10.49, 10.50
- essential feature 10.36
- legal, agreement to make 10.49, 10.50
- purpose 10.35
- source materials A.2.8
- Nautical assessors 7.82–7.103
- Navigable waters
- Navigation
- meaning 2.10
- Necessaries 2.170–2.175
- Notice of admission of right of claimant to limit liability A.1.1.1.20, A.1.5.7
- Notice of Consular Officer of intention to apply for warrant of arrest A.1.1.1.9
- Oil pollution 2.62–2.66
- One–ship company situation
- Order for sale of ship A.1.1.1.17
- Other charge
- Ownership 2.35
- Particulars of claim 4.7, 4.8
- Payment out of court 4.137–4.139
- Pilotage 2.99–2.103
- Piracy 2.158
- Possession of foreign ships 2.52, 2.53
- Possession of ship 2.30–2.34
- Practice
- source materials A.2.3
- Pre–action applications 1.8
- Priorities 6.1–6.79
- Priorities, determination of 4.134;
- References A.1.6
- source material A.2.7
- Release 4.93–4.107
- Request and undertaking for release A.1.1.1.14
- Request and caution against arrest A.1.1.1.10
- Request and caution against release A.1.1.1.13
- Request for withdrawal of caution against release A.1.1.1.15
- Restraint 2.43, 2.44
- Restricted limitation decree A.1.1.1.24, A.1.5.9
- Royal Court of Guernsey 1.29
- Royal Court of Jersey 1.30
- Sale 2.50, 2.51, 4.111–4.126
- Sale and purchase agreements 2.40–2.42
- Salvage 2.78–2.93
- Seaman
- Secured creditors 3.87–3.97
- Senior Courts Act 1981: section 20(1)(b)–subsection 20(3) 2.159–2.161
- Senior Courts Act 1981: section 20(1) (c) 2.165–2.175
- Senior Courts Act 1981: section 20(1)(d) 2.176
- Senior Courts Act 1981
- Service of claim form 4.15–4.25
- acknowledgement before service effected 4.19
- Admiralty Marshal, by 4.20
- innocent passage 4.17
- manner of service on cargo 4.22
- manner of service on freight 4.23
- manner of service on proceeds of sale 4.24
- manner of service on ship 4.21
- no service out of jurisdiction 4.18
- service on person named in notice against arrest 4.25
- substituted 4.16
- Ship
- Ship mortgages 10.1–10.231
see also Mortgages
- appurtenances 10.70–10.72
- articles on board 10.73
- British ships 10.2
- bunkers 10.74
- cargo 10.75
- costs 10.231
- discharge 10.82–10.87
- effective date 10.65
- foreclosure 10.186–10.190
- intervention by charterers or other interested parties 10.221
- freight 10.76
- interest 10.99–10.104
- joint mortgagees 10.112
- joint mortgagors 10.111
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 10.22
- mode of taking possession 10.159–10.164
- mortgagee 10.133–10.152
- mortgagee in possession 10.165–10.181
- mortgagee of shares 10.222–10.227
- mortgagor 10.94–10.117
- mortgagor in possession 10.118–10.132
- nature of 10.44
- ownership, and 10.1
- possession of mortgaged property 10.113–10.117
- prior charterparties 10.153–10.158
- receiver, appointment of 10.182–10.185
- redemption 10.105–10.111
- registration 10.3–10.33
- repayment 10.98
- right to redeem 10.94
- rights and liabilities of mortgagor and mortgagee 10.89–10.231
- sale 10.191–10.220
- Sale of Goods Act 1979 10.16–10.21
- scope 10.69–10.76
- second mortgagee 10.228–10.230
- taking possession 10.45, 10.46
- termination of registration 10.88
- transfer 10.77–10.81
- unregistered owner of registered ship 10.66
- unregistered ships 10.67
- Shipwreck 2.155
- Solicitor’s lien 6.31
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- Standard directions to Admiralty Marshal A.1.1.1.12
- Standard of proof 2.36–2.38
- Statutory power of detention and sale 6.3–6.20
- Staying proceedings 3.157
- Subject matter jurisdiction 1.9–1.14, 2.1–2.179
- Used in navigation
- meaning 2.6
- Wages 2.109–2.127
- alien enemies 2.122
- attitude of court 2.110, 2.111
- claim against foreign ships 2.118–2.121
- claim for 2.109–2.127
- engagement under illegal contract 2.127
- forfeiture 2.125
- maritime lien 2.116
- master, meaning 2.112
- meaning 2.113–2.115
- provision of foreign law barring recovery 2.127
- seaman 2.123–2.124
- set–off against 2.126
- subrogation to wages lien if payment made with leave of court 2.117
- Warrant of arrest A.1.1.1.11
- Witnesses
- examination before trial 4.142
- Wreccum maris 2.155
- Wreck
- outside territorial sea 2.157
- Wreck inquiries 1.33–1.42
- Wrongful act, neglect or default 2.71
- Wrongful arrest 4.35–4.40
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