Offshore Contracts and Liabilities

ISBN-13: 9780415737517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 488 str.

Baris Soyer; Andrew Tettenborn

Opis

Written by a team of top academics and highly-experienced legal practitioners, this is a very complex area of law. It provides both a critical analysis on contemporary legal issues concerning offshore contracts, and an in-depth account 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 and Heavycon
• In-depth analysis of the current liability regimes with clear reference to contemporary industry practice
• Thorough examination of the current state of the law from national, regional and international perspectives
• Up-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"

Recenzje

"Overall, this is a very fine book which is indispensable reading for any practitioner active within the field and which will also be of great interest to students and scholars of maritime law, energy law or the law of commercial contracts. The papers in Part 1 amount to nothing less than a supberb work of scholarship" - Greg Gordon, University of Aberdeen

Spis treści

Part 1- Offshore Contracts  Chapter 1.   BIMCO’s Offshore Contracts  Chapter 2.  Key Aspects of New WINDTIME Form  Chapter 3.  HEAVYCON 2007: Liabilities, Exceptions, Indemnities  Chapter 4.  Knock for Knock Clauses in Offshore Contracts- The Fundamental Principles  Chapter 5.  The Construction of Mutual Indemnities and ‘Knock for Knock’ Clauses  Chapter 6. Consequential Loss Exclusion Clauses in Offshore Contracts: The Need for Greater Clarity  Chapter 7.  Excluding Consequential Damages  Chapter 8.  Wilful Misconduct and Gross negligence Exclusions in ‘Knock for Knock’ Provisions in Offshore Contracts  Chapter 9.  Knock for Knock- The P & I Perspective  Chapter 10.  Standard Contracts Used in the Offshore Insurance Sector: Clear and Unambiguous?  PART 2- Offshore Liabilities  Chapter 11.  Pollution from Offshore Rigs and Installations- UK Law  Chapter 12.   Norwegian Perspective with regard to Liability Regimes Concerning Oil Rigs and InstallationsChapter 13.  Offshore Injury- Whose Jurisdiction, What Law? Chapter 14.   Marine Spatial Planning- An Incoming Tide of Opportunity or Liability?