Foreword |
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Preface |
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Authors' Biographies |
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Contributors |
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PART 1 VARIOUS LIABILITY REGIMES: INTERNATIONAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL |
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Chapter 1 "Torrey Canyon", 45 Years On: Have We Solved All The Problems? |
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3 | (1) |
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The Torrey Canyon Incident |
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3 | (2) |
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4 | (1) |
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Claimants: Rights of Action |
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4 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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International Response to the Torrey Canyon Disaster |
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5 | (2) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (1) |
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7 | (1) |
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7 | (2) |
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Other Historic Oil Pollution Cases and Conclusion |
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9 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Liability For Pollution From Ships' Bunkers |
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11 | (1) |
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The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001 |
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12 | (5) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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Parties Liable Under the Convention |
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13 | (1) |
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Liability Incurred Independently of the Convention |
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14 | (1) |
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15 | (1) |
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Compulsory Insurance and Certification |
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16 | (1) |
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The Period since Entry into Force of the Convention: Issues Encountered in Practice |
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17 | (5) |
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17 | (1) |
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Limitation of Liability for Bunker Pollution Clean-Up Costs |
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18 | (1) |
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Interpretation of Article 2.1(a) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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Amount of Liability Limits: The Pacific Adventurer |
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22 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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Chapter 3 The HNS Convention And Its 2010 Protocol |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (2) |
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Main Features of the Regime Applying to Tanker Oil Spills |
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25 | (1) |
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Overview of the HNS Convention |
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26 | (23) |
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Substances to which the HNS Convention Applies |
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26 | (1) |
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Geographical Scope of Application |
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27 | (1) |
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Ships Covered by the Convention |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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Pollution Damage Caused by Persistent Oil |
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30 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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Consequential and Pure Economic Loss |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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Damage Caused by Hazardous Substances and Other Factors |
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32 | (1) |
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The Shipowner's Liability |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (1) |
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36 | (2) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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The HNS Fund's Obligations |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments |
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43 | (1) |
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Operation of the HNS Fund |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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Operation of Special Accounts Postponed or Suspended |
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46 | (1) |
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Difference between the HNS Fund and the 1992 Fund Contribution Systems in Respect of Major Incidents |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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Special Contribution Issues Relating to Oil |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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Entry into Force Conditions |
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49 | (1) |
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Preparations for the Entry into Force of the 1996 HNS Convention |
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49 | (1) |
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Elaboration of a Draft Protocol to the HNS Convention |
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50 | (1) |
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The 2010 Diplomatic Conference |
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50 | (4) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (1) |
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Non-submission of Reports on Contributing Cargoes |
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51 | (1) |
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Substances to Which the Convention Applies |
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52 | (1) |
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Tacit Acceptance Procedure |
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53 | (1) |
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Entry into Force Conditions |
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53 | (1) |
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Adoption of the 2010 Protocol |
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53 | (1) |
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Preparations for the Entry into Force of the 2010 HNS Convention |
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54 | (1) |
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Relationship between the HNS Convention and the EU Directive on Environmental Liability |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (4) |
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Chapter 4 Compensation For Pollution Damage Resulting From Exploration For And Exploitation Of Seabed Mineral Resources |
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59 | (1) |
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Current Legal Regime and Potential Problems |
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60 | (12) |
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Limits and Recoverability of Claims Under OPOL |
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62 | (1) |
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Applicability of National and International Regimes and Problems Emerging |
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63 | (1) |
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Limitation of Liability for Oil Rigs |
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64 | (5) |
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Application of the CLC and Fund Conventions 1992 to Offshore Crafts |
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69 | (2) |
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Recoverability of Pure Economic Loss Claims |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (6) |
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Extending the Scope of the CLC and Fund Regimes |
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72 | (2) |
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Devising a New International Liability Regime |
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74 | (1) |
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Political and Practical Difficulties |
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74 | (2) |
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The Key Features of a Global Solution |
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76 | (2) |
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78 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Proposals For Legislative Reform Following The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
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81 | (1) |
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Initial Reform Proposals: 111th Congress |
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82 | (8) |
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Removal of OPA-90 Limits of Liability |
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83 | (1) |
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Certificates of Financial Responsibility |
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84 | (1) |
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The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund |
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85 | (1) |
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Natural Resource Damage Assessment |
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86 | (2) |
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Limitation of Liability Act |
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88 | (1) |
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Jones Act and Death on the High Seas Act |
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89 | (1) |
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Pending Proposals on Punitive Damages: 112th Congress |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 "To The Great Damage And Common Nuisance Of All Liege Subjects Of Our Lady The Queen": Oil Pollution Claims And Public Nuisance |
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The Criminal Offence of Public Nuisance |
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95 | (1) |
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A Typical Example of an Oil Pollution Incident: The "Sea Empress" Casualty |
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96 | (3) |
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The Development of the Tort of Public Nuisance |
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99 | (5) |
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Public Nuisance Distinguished from Private Nuisance |
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104 | (3) |
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Why does the Tort of Public Nuisance Matter in the Context of Modern Oil Pollution Claims? |
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107 | (1) |
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The Recoverability of "Pure Economic Loss" in Public Nuisance |
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107 | (16) |
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A More Favourable Burden of Proof for the Claimant? |
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115 | (8) |
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The Four (or Five?) Necessary Elements of the Tort of Public Nuisance |
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123 | (16) |
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Is there a Public Nuisance? |
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124 | (4) |
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Has the Claimant Suffered Particular Injury or Damage? |
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128 | (5) |
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Is the Particular Damage Direct and Not Merely a Consequential Damage? |
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133 | (5) |
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Is the Particular Loss or Damage a Foreseeable Consequence of the Nuisance? |
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138 | (1) |
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Is the Particular Damage of a Substantial Character? |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Avoiding International Legal Regimes: The Erika Experience |
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141 | (1) |
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Administrative Sanctions (Contravention De Grande Voirie) |
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142 | (1) |
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Reliance on Waste Disposal Laws in Lieu of the International Regime for Oil Pollution |
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143 | (4) |
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147 | (4) |
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The Legal Regime Applicable to the Pollution Offence |
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149 | (2) |
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The Lack of Competence in the Criminal Court to Compensate the Damage caused by the Pollution from the Erika |
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151 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 Maritime Liability And Compensation In EU Law |
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155 | (1) |
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Implementing the International Liability Rules |
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156 | (5) |
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The Relevant International Liability Conventions |
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156 | (2) |
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Ratifying the International Conventions |
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158 | (2) |
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Implementing Provisions of the International Conventions |
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160 | (1) |
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Complementing the International Liability Rules |
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161 | (5) |
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Complementing with General EU Environmental Law |
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161 | (2) |
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Complementing with Criminal Liability |
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163 | (2) |
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Complementing by "Improving" the International Rules on Particular Issues |
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165 | (1) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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Other EU Law Implications |
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166 | (3) |
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Jurisdiction and Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments |
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166 | (2) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (6) |
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PART 2 POLLUTION LIABILITIES AND THIRD PARTIES |
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Chapter 9 Environmental Salvage: Time For A Change? |
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175 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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Reasons for Change and the Proposed Changes |
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176 | (4) |
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Article 1 (d) of the Salvage Convention 1989 |
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177 | (1) |
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Article 13 of the Salvage Convention 1989 |
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177 | (1) |
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Revised Article 14 of the Salvage Convention 1989 |
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178 | (2) |
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180 | (1) |
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Chapter 10 Recent Developments In P&I Cover For Pollution: Terrorism, Piracy And Sanctions |
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181 | (1) |
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The Traditional Role of the P&I Clubs as Oil Pollution Insurers |
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181 | (2) |
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Developments in P&I Cover |
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183 | (8) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (4) |
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Chapter 11 The Liability Of Charterers For Marine Pollution |
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191 | (1) |
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The Direct Liability of Charterers to Third Party Claimants |
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192 | (9) |
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International Conventions |
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192 | (1) |
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192 | (3) |
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195 | (1) |
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195 | (2) |
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National or Regional Statutes |
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197 | (1) |
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US Federal and State Statutes |
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197 | (1) |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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Traditional Common Law or Civil Law Principles |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (1) |
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The Right of Shipowners and Charterers to Claim Indemnities Inter Se for Liabilities that they may have Incurred to Third Party Claimants |
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201 | (2) |
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Shipowners' Claims Against Charterers |
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201 | (1) |
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Charterers' Claims Against Shipowners |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Marine Pollution: Unorthodox Suits And Unorthodox Defendants |
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Introduction: Pollution Liability, Channelling and Unorthodox Defendants |
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205 | (2) |
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The Scheme of the Argument |
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207 | (1) |
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207 | (6) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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Other Negligence Defendants |
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209 | (1) |
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Negligence: Two Special Cases |
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209 | (2) |
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Negligence: The Losses Compensable |
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211 | (2) |
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The Place of Public Nuisance |
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213 | (4) |
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Claims in Private Nuisance |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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A Final Matter: Exclusions |
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219 | (6) |
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PART 3 PUBLIC LAW ASPECTS |
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Chapter 13 Maritime Pollution And State Liability |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (10) |
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Customary International Law and State-to-State Claims for Transboundary Pollution |
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226 | (2) |
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International Conventions and Places of Refuge |
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228 | (1) |
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The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea |
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229 | (2) |
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Customary International Law and the Rights of Vessels in Distress |
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231 | (3) |
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Customary International Law as a Cause of Action for Private Parties |
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234 | (2) |
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Liability Under Domestic UK Law |
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236 | (12) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (1) |
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Liability of Port Authorities |
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240 | (2) |
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Statutory Liability of the SOSREP |
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242 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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MSA, Schedule 3A, Paragraph 2 |
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243 | (1) |
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MSA, Schedule 3A, paragraph 3 |
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244 | (1) |
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MSA, Schedule 3A, Paragraph 4 |
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244 | (1) |
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Power to Establish a Temporary Exclusion Zone |
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244 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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MSA, Schedule 3A, Paragraph 14: Compensation |
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245 | (1) |
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MSA, Schedule 3A, Paragraph 15: Recovery of Costs Incurred in Complying with a Direction |
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246 | (1) |
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State Liability and the CLC, HNS and Bunkers Conventions |
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246 | (1) |
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Limitation by Public Bodies Under the LLMC 1976 |
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247 | (1) |
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Three Recent Developments |
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248 | (4) |
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248 | (1) |
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EU Law and Ships in Distress |
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248 | (1) |
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Article 20a Plans for the Accommodation of Ships in Need of Assistance |
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249 | (1) |
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Article 20b Decision on the Accommodation of Ships |
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249 | (1) |
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Article 20c Financial Security and Compensation |
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250 | (1) |
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Article 20d Examination by the Commission |
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250 | (1) |
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The CMI Draft Instrument on Places of Refuge 2009 |
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250 | (2) |
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252 | (3) |
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Chapter 14 Whatever Happened To European Directive 2005/35/EC? Europe's Ambivalent Approach To The Fight Against Marine Pollution And Its Consequences For Seafarers |
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Prologue: The Erika and Prestige Disasters and their Legal Consequences |
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255 | (1) |
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The Overall Tenor of Directive 2005/35/EC |
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256 | (1) |
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The Annulment of the 2005 Framework Decision |
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257 | (1) |
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Criticism of the 2005 Directive |
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258 | (1) |
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Conflict between the 2005 Directive and UNCLOS and MARPOL |
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258 | (1) |
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Other Difficulties with the 2005 Directive |
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259 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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The Assault on the 2005 Directive |
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260 | (1) |
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The Decision of the European Court on the Legality of the 2005 Directive |
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260 | (2) |
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Some Critical Comments on the Intertanko Decision |
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262 | (2) |
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The Consequences of Intertanko |
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264 | (1) |
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Amendments Introduced by the 2009 Directive |
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265 | (1) |
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The Promised and Expected Fair Treatment of Seafarers |
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266 | (1) |
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The IMO Guidelines on the Fair Treatment of Seafarers |
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266 | (1) |
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The French Erika Decisions |
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267 | (1) |
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Later French Penal Developments |
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267 | (1) |
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An Actual Assessment with Reference to the Treatment of Seafarers |
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268 | (1) |
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268 | (3) |
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Chapter 15 Impact Of Port State Control On Pollution At Sea |
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271 | (4) |
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What is Port State Control? |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (2) |
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Basic Principles of all Regional MOUs |
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278 | (1) |
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Rules Governing PSC Inspections |
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278 | (2) |
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The IMO Resolution A. 1051(27), Procedures for Port State Control, 2011 |
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278 | (1) |
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Regional MOUs and Annexes |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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Recent Changes Under the PSC System |
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282 | (2) |
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"Relevant Instruments" Related to Marine Pollution |
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284 | (5) |
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The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, SOLAS 1974 and Subsequent Protocols |
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285 | (1) |
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International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as Modified by the Protocol of 1978 Relating Thereto, MARPOL 73/78 |
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286 | (2) |
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International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (2) |
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1 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992 (Civil Liability Convention 1992) |
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291 | (8) |
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2 International Convention on the Establishment of An International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992 (Fund Convention 1992) |
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299 | (16) |
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3 International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001 (Bunker Convention 2001) |
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315 | (10) |
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4 International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 1996 (HNS Convention 1996) |
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325 | (30) |
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5 Protocol of 2010 to the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 1996 |
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355 | (14) |
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6 Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage Resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources (CLEE) 1977 |
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