Smithfield Crossing Law Blog

Legal Issues Relating to Time Charterparties addresses all the major questions and issues that arise in connection with time charterparties, examining them in a logical manner, progressively tracing the subject from the creation to the termination of the contract.

All the salient and central legal aspects of time charterparties are examined, with the law analysed in its commercial context, particularly in relation to the various ways in which time charterparties may be used in shipping and international trade.

Table of Contents

1. Standard Forms – the BIMCO experience

Grant Hunter

2. Construing terms in time charterparties Beginning of a new era or business as usual?

Dr Baris Soyer

3. Ascertaining the charter period

Paul Herring

4. Safe ports and places

Professor Howard Bennett

5. Seaworthiness and the “Hong Kong Fir” decision

Mark Hamsher,

6. Indemnities in time charters

David Foxton QC

7. Time charterparty hire: Issues relating to contractual remedies of default and off hire clauses

Professor D Rhidian Thomas

8. Assignees of hire: how fare can they ignore charters’ claims against owners?

Professor Andrew Tettenborn

9. Time charterparties and bills of lading

Emeritus Professor Francis Reynolds QC

10. Clauses paramount in time charters

Yvonne Baatz

11. War, terror, piracy and frustration in a time charter context

Professor Keith Michel

12. Termination rights under time charters

John D. Kimball

13. The allocation of cargo claims between owners and charterers in NYPE chaterparties

Dr Theodora Nikaki

14. Containerisation, slot charters and the law

Christopher Hancock QC

15. Damages for breach of time charter: some recent developments

Andrew Taylor

16. The effectiveness of liens as a self-help remedy?

Professor Richard W. Williams