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BOOK REVIEW - ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION AND PRACTICE
ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION AND PRACTICE. Nigel Meeson, Barrister (M.T.), Attorney and Counsellor at Law, California. Lloyd’s of London Press, London (1993) lviii and 256 pp., plus 278 pp. Appendices and 10 pp. Index. Hardback £85.
The Admiralty jurisdiction of the English courts with its unique subject-matter has been rapidly evolving since the Administration of Justice Act 1956 and the changes brought by the Supreme Court Act 1981 and remains the specialist domain of an admiralty lawyer. With the new developments in the field since the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 it is not only a matter of a claimant’s securing his claim by proceeding against the res and obliging the elusive one-ship
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