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Articles and case comments
- Unified Interpretation on the Test for Breaking the Owner’s Right to Limit Liability under the IMO Liability and Compensation ConventionsAt present, amongst the Comité Maritime International (CMI) International Working Groups (IWG) is one with the longest name, which gives quite some insight on its activity – the IWG for the Unified Interpretation on the Test for Breaking the Owner’s Right to Limit Liability under the IMO Liability…
- Database of Judicial Decisions on International Conventions“Our object was to give to the sea, which is the natural tie between the nations, the benefit of a uniform law, which will be rational, deliberated, equitable in its inception and practical in its text. We have considered that in our work, the shipowner, the merchant, the underwriter, the average adjuster, the banker, the parties directly interested should have the leading part: that the task of the lawyer was to discern what in this maritime community was the general feeling, which, among these divergent interests, is common to all; to discern also which of the various solutions is the best; to contribute to the common work his science and his experience, but that ultimately the lawyer should hold the pen and that the man of practice should dictate the solutions.”
