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QCR Autumn 2021: The "CARAKA JAYA NIAGA III-11" [2021] SGHC 43

23/09/2021

Quarterly 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.

Vietnam - Time Bars

10/03/2017

The time bars are defined under Article 149 of the Civil Code 2015 (to become effective from 01 January 2017) that time bar means a time-limit provided by law where, upon its expiry, a legal consequence arises as prescribed by law.

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).

England and Wales - Time Bars

27/02/2017

Chile - Time Bars

13/02/2017

Under Chilean law the general principle is that any action relating to maritime disputes is time-barred in two years.

Poland - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Portugal - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Qatar - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Syria - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Sri Lanka - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Spain - Time Bars

31/01/2017

South Africa - Time Bars

31/01/2017

Singapore - Time Bars

31/01/2017

A limitation period is the time within which claimants have to commence legal proceedings, either in court or arbitration, otherwise those claims will become time barred.

Saudi Arabia - Time Bars

31/01/2017

The new Saudi COGSA rules now state time bar is 365 days, as such if no claim is presented within the one year it will be time barred, the old rules of the 3 years to prosecute etc is no longer applicable.

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