Australian Maritime Law fills the need for an up-to-date, Australian general text that covers the major distinct areas of maritime law. The second edition will be a valuable acquisition for students of maritime law, practitioners, and all those in the maritime industry whose duties or activities include an involvement with maritime law.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Constitutional Background and Jurisdiction of Courts - Hon. Dr. Howard E. Zelling AO CBE QC and Dr. Michael White QC
CHAPTER 2: Actions in Rem - Arrest of Ships - Maritime Liens - Associate Professor Damien Cremean and Sandy Thompson SC
CHAPTER 3: Carriage of Goods by Sea - Frances Hannah and Anthe Philippides SC
CHAPTER 4: Sea Carriage Documents - Frances Hannah and Professor Robert Grime
CHAPTER 5: Marine Insurance - Associate Professor Damien Cremean
CHAPTER 6: Charterparties - Dr. Sarah Derrington and Andrew Panna
CHAPTER 7: Maritime Securities - Peter M. McDermott and Justice Richard Cooper
CHAPTER 8: Navigation - Collisions and Liability - Marine Inquiries - Alexander W. Street, SC and Blake Larkin
CHAPTER 9: Salvage, Towage, Wreck and Pilotage - Dr. Michael White, QC
CHAPTER 10: Limitation of Liability - Dr. Michael White, QC
CHAPTER 11: Prize, Prize Salvage, Bounty and Ransom - Dr. Michael White, QC
CHAPTER 12: Shipping and International Organisations - Professor Edgar Gold, CM, QC

APPENDIX 1: The Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth)
APPENDIX 2: Admiralty Rules
APPENDIX 3: Summary of Status of IMO Conventions
APPENDIX 4: International Convention on Salvage 1989
APPENDIX 5: Lloyd's Standard Form of Salvage Agreement (LOF 2000)
APPENDIX 6: Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Act 1989 (Cth)
APPENDIX 7: 1996 Protocol to the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1989

Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Conventions
Index

"This is the second edition of a well-known, indeed classic, Australian textbook.... a new edition of this book is welcome.
Notwithstanding that it is the work of mnay hands, this book gives a comprehensive and thorough coverage of the main areas of maritime law from an Australian persepective....
For the new edition, every chapter has been updated. Some have also been substantially reworked and some largely rewritten, including much new material. The result is a book which is significantly longer than the first edition and which leaves even fewer gaps in its coverage of the area. This is in line with the editor's aim to produce a comprehensive text treating every major aspect of the subject, rather than just a collection of essays about various parts of it. For that reason it can safely be used by practitioners as a textbook, notwithstanding the diversity of authorship.
I think this second edition is likely to have as devoted a following as the first. The eminence of many of the authors and the thoroughness and clarity of their treatment of the subject matter make it a place which practitioners with maritime or admiralty problems will want to visit early in their research. It is a useful complement to other Australian works in the field, and an excellent stand-alone text."

-- Law Institute Journal (Victoria), June 2001

"[Despite being a specialised area of practice, maritime law] is a fun subject to read about. The chapters of this work are filled with maritime and admiralty language so vivid ... that it conjures Hornblower-like imagery of life and the law on the high seas."

-- Ethos (Law Society of the ACT), December 2001