Shipowners' limitation of liability / Barnabas W.B. Reynolds, Michael N. Tsimplis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-443) and index.

How limitation issues arise -- Tonnage and value based limitation systems -- Who may invoke global limitation? -- For which types of vessel is limitation available? -- The claims to which limitation may apply -- When is the right to limited liability lost? -- The limits of liability -- Multiple funds, multiplicity of defendants and counterclaims -- Constitution of the fund and priority of claims -- The admiralty jurisdiction of the English High Court and English limitation procedure -- Jurisdiction for global limitation of liability proceedings -- Passenger liability -- Cargo claims and the Hague-Visby Rules -- Limitation of liability for oil pollution -- Bunker and lubricating oils -- Liability for oil pollution not covered by international conventions -- Hazardous and noxious substances -- Appendix I. Ratification status of the 1924 Limitation Convention -- Appendix II. Ratification status of the 1957 Limitation Convention and its 1979 Protocol -- Appendix III. Ratification status of the 1976 and 1996 LLMCs -- Appendix IV. 1924 Limitation Convention -- Appendix V. 1957 Limitation Convention -- Appendix VI. 1976 LLMC -- Appendix VII. 1996 LLMC.