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General average, legal basis and applicable law
the overrated significance of the York-Antwerp Rules
|| Paperback || Jolien Kruit || Paris Legal Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
General average is considered to be one of the most uniformly regulated topics of maritime law. This study concludes that this perception is flawed. The invariably applicable York-Antwerp Rules do not provide a full regime, whereas their applicability is generally contractual only. As a result, questions arise as to which law applies to general average obligations, how the applicable national law is to be determined (taking into consideration the impact of the European Rome I and II Regulatio...
The Relation Between Leniency and Private Enforcement
Towards an Optimum of Overall Competition Law Enfocement?
2018 || Hardcover || B. Braat || Paris Legal Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
The difficulty with competition law is that so many aspects can influence its overall effectiveness. Sanctions in criminal law or the emergence of private enforcement, for example, may influence leniency policy. In turn, public enforcement, whilst protecting information, could also influence the effectiveness of antitrust damages actions.
The author makes a comparison with the board game “Pisa”. In this game, small figures have to be placed at different levels of the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
Hidden Civil Law. How can you know what the applicable law is?
how can you know what the applicable law is?
|| Paperback || R. Westrik || Paris Legal Publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
Lawyers are taught to work with applicable law and to be familiar with the applicable law, they should 'keep up to date with their literature'. Here, in two sentences, the reality and ways of working of lawyers throughout the past century. Past because, in contemporary times, applicable law can no longer be easily 'recognised'. There is a knowing problem related to applicable law of European origin. This problem consists in two main questions: How are lawyers to know what applicable law is? A...
The Legal Position of Terminal Operators in Hinterland Networks
mixed contracts and third parties
|| Paperback || S.H.L. Niessen || Paris Legal Publishers
The legal position of the terminal operator changes by the integration of the carriage of goods between the sea port and the hinterland into his service profile. The terminal operator performs a wide variety of obligations, including loading and discharging, stacking, warehousing, measuring, weighing and carrying goods within and beyond the terminal's premises. These obligations fall into different categories of contracts for which the law provides specific rules, i.e. a contract of carriage,...