The Liability of Classification SocietiesSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007 M06 30 - 380 pages Classification societies are discharging various functions in the interest of flag States and shipowners. They are important actors in the system of maritime safety. Because the liability of shipowners is limited, classification societies have been considered as exempt from liability for a long time – and in several jurisdictions this view still prevails. This study analyses which actions of classification societies may give rise to claims and whether or not the societies can be held liable under English, German or United States maritime law. Moreover, the fundamental aspects of an international convention on the limitation of the liability of classification societies are developed. |
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... literature and documents available until November 2006. Hamburg, March 2007 Nicolai Lagoni Outline Table of Contents Table of Contents........................................................................................
... March 2001, [2002] DMF 14; Tribunal correctionnel de Saint-Nazaire 18 March 2003, [2003] DMF 1068 (with case comment Proutière-Maulion, 'Observations', [2003] DMF 1088). The liability under French law is analysed by Coffi, Les sociétés ...
... March 2007. “Sundancer” is also the name of the vessel in a different United States case, Sundance Cruises Corp. v. American Bureau of Shipping, 799 F.Supp. 363 (S.D.N.Y.1992), aff'd, 7 F.3d 1077 (2d Cir.1993). The sale of the vessel ...
... March 2007). CMI Code of Conduct for Classification Societies, [1995] CMI Yearbook 100-106; also reprinted in Annex A & B to Wiswall, 'Classification societies: issues considered by the Joint Working Group', 2 I.J.S.L. 171 (1997), at ...
... March 2007) of the ships of which the classification has been withdrawn, and via Equasis (<www.equasis.org>, last accessed 19 March 2007). 11 The American Bureau of Shipping, for example, distinguishes between Oil Carrier, Ore Carrier ...
Contents
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B Private Operations and Public Functions in Detail | 43 |
Obligations of the Classification Society | 54 |
NonDelegable Duty of the Shipowner to Make the Vessel Seaworthy | 55 |
Liability under United States Law | 240 |
Liability under German Law | 248 |
Damage Caused by Both a Classification and Statutory | 256 |
A Convention on the Limitation of Liability of Classification | 259 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Table of Cases 351 | 350 |
Table of International Conventions | 365 |
Index 373 | 372 |