Maritime Risk International
‘Security arrest’ in South Africa
John Taylor, on secondment at Richards Butler from Findlay & Tait, Cape Town
South Africa’s admiralty courts are well known for their wide-ranging powers to order ship arrests and attachments. Non-South
African parties and their legal advisers particularly enjoy the ability to obtain security for claims that they are required
to pursue elsewhere than in the South African courts – the so-called ‘security arrest’.