A significant proportion of the expertise in the Managers’ offices around the world resides in our lawyers who advise Members on P&I related legal and contractual issues. The Legal Department's main responsibilities consist of:
- The drafting and review of the UK P&I Club's Rules, legal documentations and legal aspects of the reinsurance contracts
- The production of legal publications (legal briefings, QCRs, articles, updates, etc.) on topical legal issues to share the Club's legal expertise with our Members, and to keep our Members updated on shipping related legal developments worldwide
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Jacqueline Tan
QCRs
View allCommercial Court clarifies that the time bar in Article III rule 6 Hague Visby Rules applies also to claims for misdelivery of cargo after discharge from the vessel.
The Court of Appeal has unanimously overturned the High Court decision in The Eternal Bliss [2021] EWCA Civ 1712.
QCR Winter 2021: M/V HONEY
16/12/2021
Commercial diver working on a recreational vessel could not take advantage of LHWCA exception where plaintiffs failed to demonstrate State Workers' Compensation Cover
Courts not required to construe disputed medical evidence in seamen's favor in maintenance and cure cases.
Legal Updates
View allBIMCO has developed and published an eBL Standard for the bulk shipping sector to establish common industry standards for e-BLs
The Supreme Court has refused the disponent owners permission to appeal, and affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal
Transport Canada has issued Ship Safety Bulletin (SSB) No
The Club's guest authors, Jeremy M Joseph and Matthew Van Huizen of JOSEPH & PARTNERS, discuss the different limitation of liability regimes applicable to Peninsular Malaysia and to East Malaysia.
Legal Articles
View allBIMCO has developed and published an eBL Standard for the bulk shipping sector to establish common industry standards for e-BLs
A Roadmap for Ship Decarbonisation
27/09/2022
Discover the need for decarbonisation in shipping to combat global warming and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) approved on 30 June 2022 a draft convention (the Draft Convention) on the effect of judicial sales
These amendments will enter into force on 1 April 2022.
Legal Briefings
View allTime Bars
View allQuarterly case review from the UK P&I Club indicates that single liability principle does not operate in a collision claim where the claim of one of the shipowners is time-barred.
United States - Time Bars
22/07/2019
Like some other countries, the United States is a federal jurisdiction consisting of a national government and fifty states. Maritime law is almost exclusively federal statutory or judge-made law but state law is also relevant in certain respects.
Ukraine - Time Bars
24/04/2017
Time Bars (TB) is the period of time allowed for filling a claim to court for the protection of civil rights or interests (art. 256 Civil Code of Ukraine).
United Arab Emirates - Time Bars
14/03/2017
UAE Maritime Code 1981
Indonesia - Time Bars
10/03/2017
As such in Indonesia, the law does not specify when the limitation periods begin. However, in practice, the period starts when the right to make the claim first arises. However, there is no specific maritime law/Act in Indonesia but there are few provisions in regard to the time bars/limitation as per Indonesian Commercial Code.
Malaysia - Time Bars
10/03/2017
The Statute of Limitations Act prescribes different period of limitation depending on different types of causes of action that arise.
Myanmar - Time Bars
10/03/2017
As commerce, including international commerce, starts to grow in Myanmar, there will be many cases in which a contract gives rise to a dispute between the parties to it. The question whether a Myanmar Court will or should adjudicate a contract dispute but if it does adjudicate, the rules which tell it whether to apply the domestic law of Myanmar, or the Myanmar rules of private international.
Thailand - Time Bars
10/03/2017
As a civil law country, the general provisions of prescription are provided by the Civil and Commercial Code ("the Code") in its Book I, Title IV, Chapters I and II which came into force in 1923 and was subsequently amended in 1925 and 1992. In principle, the period of prescription begins to run from the moment when the claim can be enforced. If the claim is for forbearance, prescription begins to run from the moment when the right is first infringed (Section 193/12 of the Code).