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The Continuum Of International Maritime Law And Canadian Maritime Law: Explaining A Complex Relationship, Aldo Chircop, Sarah Shiels Oct 2012

The Continuum Of International Maritime Law And Canadian Maritime Law: Explaining A Complex Relationship, Aldo Chircop, Sarah Shiels

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article discusses the relationship between international maritime law and Canadian maritime law from legislative and judicial perspectives. It explains the relationship through Canada's implementation of international maritime conventions and a study of Canadian case law The article concludes that the relationship has a well-developed pattern based on legislative structures and judicial processes. With strong historical roots and traditions, the relationship is motivated by international comity and has firm grounding in international and domestic public policyin support ofinternational uniformity to facilitate international commerce. Canadian maritime law has a unique heritage underscored by commercial necessity The consequence is a relationship between …


Maritime Law, George Strathy Apr 2005

Maritime Law, George Strathy

Dalhousie Law Journal

This substantial work. written by three members of the faculty of the Marine and Environmental Law Institute at Dalhousie University, is part of the Irwin Law, Essentials of Canadian Law series. Running to just over 800 pages of text, it covers the waterfront, so to speak, of its subject matter. An indication of the scope of the text is reflected in the division of labour among the three authors. They co-authored an introductory chapter and each took responsibility for writing different chapters of the rest of the book. Edgar Gold, a former ship captain and a Master Mariner, has been …


A Brief Overview Of The Enforceability Of Forum Selection, Choice Of Law, And Arbitration Clauses And The Doctrine Of Forum Non Conveniens Under The Admiralty Law Of The United States, Donald R. Abaunza Apr 2001

A Brief Overview Of The Enforceability Of Forum Selection, Choice Of Law, And Arbitration Clauses And The Doctrine Of Forum Non Conveniens Under The Admiralty Law Of The United States, Donald R. Abaunza

Dalhousie Law Journal

Forum selection, choice of law and arbitration clauses are of great significance in offshore contracts, where disputes may arise in locations far removed from the fora identified in those contracts. In this article, the author provides an examination of the enforceability of these clauses in the United States, together with an explanation of the operation of the doctrine of forum non conveniens in that country.


The Admiralty Court In Colonial Nova Scotia, Arthur J. Stone Oct 1994

The Admiralty Court In Colonial Nova Scotia, Arthur J. Stone

Dalhousie Law Journal

The establishment of the "Admiralty Court", which was formally known as the Nova Scotia Court of Vice-Admiralty, had preceded Cornwallis's arrival by several years. In the late summer of 1720, when Richard Philipps was both Governor and Vice-Admiral at Nova Scotia's old royal capital of Annapolis, Daniel Henry was appointed as Judge, Arthur Savage as Register and Cypryan Southack as Marshal in vice-admiralty. Less than a decade later, during the winter of 1729, the principal offices of a court of vice-admiralty went to John Bradstreet as Judge, Erasmus James Philipps as Advocate General, James Gibson as Register and Archibald Rennie …


Crime At Sea: Admiralty Sessions And The Background To Later Colonial Jurisdiction, M. J. Prichard Oct 1984

Crime At Sea: Admiralty Sessions And The Background To Later Colonial Jurisdiction, M. J. Prichard

Dalhousie Law Journal

The conference program describes the legal history of Nova Scotia as terra incognita. Whether this is so for the province's own inhabitants is not a question that someone from the other side of the Atlantic should presume to judge, since ignorance there is not limited to the legal history of Nova Scotia but extends to colonial legal history generally. We have, I fear, been intimidated by the task, and we have tended to leave each erstwhile colony to trace its own legal history. I comfort myself, therefore, with the thought that any transatlantic contribution is likely to be a modest …


The History Of Shipping Law In Canada: The British Dominance, Theodore L. Mcdorman Oct 1983

The History Of Shipping Law In Canada: The British Dominance, Theodore L. Mcdorman

Dalhousie Law Journal

In many areas of Canadian law, the British influence has been pervasive, but in no area has it been more so than in merchant shipping law. Great Britain have long been a seafaring nation and British prosperity and pride have long rested on maritime achievements. Great Britain controlled almost all aspects of colonial merchant shipping, and thus prevented the development of an autonomous Canadian foundation in maritime law. The British influence over Canadian merchant shipping legislation remained pervasive after Confederation and contributed to the failure of Canada to develop a merchant marine, despite Canada being one of the major users …


Marine Cargo Claims, Alastair Bissett-Johnson Jul 1980

Marine Cargo Claims, Alastair Bissett-Johnson

Dalhousie Law Journal

In marine matters, Canada is not a maritime but a coastal power. She is also a nation dependent for a livelihood on foreign trade. Translated into terms of admiralty law, Canada's principal interests in ships is not in their ownership but in the cargoes they carry. Accordingly Marine Cargo Claims is a particularly apt title under which Professor Tetley has written a unique Canadian text. His work is also unusual in several useful ways. First, in being directed to the general practitioner, accustomed or not to admiralty affairs but always short of time, it is deliberately organised to facilitate the …


Inherent Vice And Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, B. G. Hansen Feb 1975

Inherent Vice And Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, B. G. Hansen

Dalhousie Law Journal

The question of who is to bear the loss from the natural deterioration of goods during shipment to a consignee is one that has caused considerable trouble for Commonwealth courts. Even within Canada, where there has been a certain amount of judicial comment, the issue remains to be finally determined. Moreover, most of the local authority is dated to the extent that it is generally to be found in pre 1930 reports.' This note is an attempt to outline briefly the current state of the law as to the allocation of loss caused by inherent vice in the course of …