Offshore contracts and liabilities
By: edited by professor Bariş Soyer and Professor Andrew Tettenborn
Series: Maritime and transport law library
Publisher: Informa Law from Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780415737517; 9781315794976
Subjects: Offshore support vessels; Law and legislation; Offshore structures; Maritime Contracts; Marine insurance; LAW / Maritime; LAW / Contracts
Description: "Written by a team of top academics and highly-experienced legal practitioners, this book offers a comprehensive, well-informed and thoroughly practical guide on what is a very complex area of law. It firstly provides a critical analysis of contemporary legal issues concerning offshore contracts, before going on to deliver an in-depth analysis of the numerous liability regimes inherently connected to offshore operations. Key features of Offshore Contracts and Liabilities: Detailed insight into contemporary legal issues concerning offshore contracts, including Supplytime, Heavycon and BIMCOIn-depth analysis of the current liability regimes with clear reference to contemporary industry practiceThorough examination of the current state of the law from national, regional and international perspectivesUp-to-date coverage of hot topics such as liability for offshore installations, knock-for knock agreements in offshore contracts and recently-developed new standard forms, such as Windtime. This book is an indispensable guide for legal practitioners, academics and industry professionals worldwide"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: BIMCO's offshore contracts / Grant Hunter; title: Key aspects of new WINDTIME form / Lars Rosenberg Overby; title: HEAVYCON 2007 : liabilities, exceptions, indemnities / Simon Baughen; title: Knock-for-knock clauses in offshore contracts : the fundamental principles / Richard W. Williams; title: The construction of mutual indemnities and knock-for-knock clauses / Simon Rainey QC; title: Consequential loss exclusion clauses in offshore contracts : the need for greater clarity / Chris Kidd; title: Excluding consequential damages / Robert Gay; title: Wilful misconduct and gross negligence exclusions in knock for knock provisions in offshore contracts / Elizabeth Blackburn QC and Jeremy Lightfoot; title: Knock for knock : the P&I perspective / Fabien Lerede; title: Standard contracts used in the offshore insurance sector : clear and unambiguous? / George Leloudas and Bariş Soyer; title: Pollution from offshore rigs and installations : UK law / Stephen Tromans QC; title: The Norwegian perspective with regard to liability regimes concerning oil rigs and installations / Erik Rosaeg; title: Offshore injury : whose jurisdiction, what law? / Andrew Tettenborn; title: Marine spatial planning : an incoming tide of opportunity or liability? / Gregory Jones QC and David Graham.