Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
NAVIGATING THE CONTOURS OF ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION
Koo Zhi Xuan*
The Bunga Melati 5
The in-depth discussions in The Bunga Melati 5 by the Singapore High Court1 and the Singapore Court of Appeal2 on the intricacies of the admiralty jurisdiction in rem are of interest to academics and practitioners of admiralty law, especially those hailing from jurisdictions which are either signatories of, or have laws modelled on, the 1952 Arrest Convention.3 Dedicating nearly 60 pages in total just on the specific issue of the admiralty
* Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. The author is indebted to the kind guidance of Professor Stephen Girvin and Professor Paul Myburgh.
1. [2011] SGHC 195; [2011] 4 SLR 1017.
2. [2012] SGCA 46; [2012] 4 SLR 546.
3. International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to the Arrest of Sea-Going Ships 1952 (Brussels, 10 May 1952) (439 UNTS 193).
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