This, definitive guide for private practitioners and in house or P & I Club shipping lawyers to the limitation of liability for maritime claims analyses and comments upon legislation including the 1976 Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, the Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea 1974 and the 2002 Athens Protocol to the Athens Convention.