Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - SHIPPING LAW (2ND EDITION)
SHIPPING LAW (2nd Edition). Robert Grime, B.A., B.C.L., B.T. (Marine) Professor of Law, Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton. Sweet & Maxwell, London (1991) xlvi and 425 pp., plus 23 pp. Index. Paperback £25.
Trying to produce a simple, comprehensible introduction to shipping law is a disconcerting task: if Carver’s Carriage by Sea runs to 1500 pages, and even Thomas’s Maritime Liens to 300, what hope for someone trying to cover the whole subject in a mere 425? It is a mark of Professor Grime’s professionalism that he has managed it, without descending to blandness or triviality; and the long-overdue second edition of his book is much to be welcomed.
The updating is in fact largely bread-and-butter; the main areas of serious change being safety provisions post-Herald of Free Enterprise, the new registration rules under the Merchant Shipping Act 1988, and the Athens Convention regime for passenger carriage. There is little that needs to be said about it, save that it has been done in a thoroughly workmanlike
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