A contract of carriage by sea evidenced inter alia by a bill of lading or charter-party governs and regulates the relations between the parties to whom it applies. As in any other contract, the parties have certain duties and obligations provided for by the contract whether expressly or by implication. This paper focuses on the effects of a breach of such a contract, in particular when such a breach is a fundamental breach or is a geographical deviation made by the carrier. The effect of an exclusion or limitation clause contained in a contract, in the event of such breaches will also be considered. There exists no jurisprudence in South African shipping law dealing with a fundamental breach or a deviation and thus in terms of s6(1) of the South African Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act no. 105 of 1983, English law is the law applicable should a South African court be faced with a situation involving a fundamental breach or geographical deviation. The doctrines of deviation and fundamental breach will be examined from the moment of their inception to arguably their disintegration. Exclusion, exception and exemption clauses are all those clauses which exclude a party who has committed a breach from liability, and limitation clauses are those limiting liability. How these have been affected by the doctrines of deviation and fundamental breach as well as the survival of these doctrines will now be seen

The trade of shipping is necessarily international in nature. Courts and international bodies often express the need to ensure international consistency in matters of maritime law. However, it has been an extremely difficult goal to achieve. Many countries have refused to be party to international conventions that seek to ensure comity. Some have enacted laws that reflect part but not all of those conventions, or seek to improve the protection offered by the conventions. The domestic law of each country also adds its own flavour to shipping law as recognised and applied by the courts in that jurisdiction. In 1974 Australia enacted the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (TPA), heralding a new era in corporate and commercial law. However, its impact on maritime law on Australia has only been felt over the last 10 – 15 years. It is potentially relevant to many areas of maritime law, including carriage of goods by sea, cruise ships, and towage. This thesis explores the encroachment of the TPA on a number of different areas of shipping law, using the few case examples on offer and extrapolating the impact that the TPA may have. It also considers the extent to which the TPA is stymied by simple contractual agreements to litigate or arbitrate in a non Australian forum, despite the TPA’s status as a mandatory statute within Australia. Raised at various points in the thesis is the possibility of law reform, which is a complex compendium of issues overlaid with a moral dimension – does shipping, as an industry, deserve to be exempted from the operation of the Act which sets a high standard of corporate behaviour? If so, how could that reform be shaped? In the meantime, what steps can the shipping industry take to work within the legal framework of the TPA?

Les conventions internationales sont adoptées par des organisations internationales dans le but d’imposer des règles uniformes dans un domaine spécifique. L’intégration du droit international dans l’ordre juridique de chacun des États parties dépend de la méthode choisie par leur propre droit national. En France, les conventions internationales de droit maritime occupent une place particulière qui leur permet d’avoir leurs dispositions directement invocables par les particuliers. Elles jouissent également d’une grande autorité lorsqu’elles sont reprises par les normes de l’Union européenne produisant des effets contraignants à l’égard des États membres. Le statut de la convention internationale au sein de l’ordre juridique français garantit la pleine effectivité des mesures qu’elle contient, sous réserve que leurs dispositions soient pleinement mises en œuvre par les tribunaux. Le juge aura alors un rôle fondamental dans l’application des conventions internationales puisqu’il pourra influencer sur les effets de ces normes internationales et choisir de participer à l’unification du droit. Mais il sera également tributaire de certaines contraintes inhérentes à l’adoption d’un acte de droit international, ce qui limitera les espoirs d’unification des règles de droit applicables en matière maritime. / The main purpose of the international organization when adopting an international convention is to provide uniform rules for specific fields. The incorporation of international regulation into the legal system of States parties depends on the national laws. In France, the monism system leads to the possibility for every claimant to invoke the provisions of the treaties to support their claim. The authority of international maritime convention has increased when the EU regulation implemented them in EU system which implies that States members are obliged to comply with them. The legal status of international convention in the national French legal system guarantees the enforcement of their own provisions, provided that they are duly applied by the national Courts. The judge will have a significant impact in the enforcement of a treaty. His ruling can improve the unification of international law. However, the judge will be subject to some constraints that may threaten the aim of unification of applicable rules in the shipping law.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:22:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monica Pimenta Judice.pdf: 3010315 bytes, checksum: 2990cdfd0c34964278a49dc8e8c964ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-25 / Despite the length limitation of an abstract, it is considered appropriate to define and clarify the object of this work. In times of intense legislative activity, the debate concerning to the nature of the decision given by the Maritime Court strengthened when the art. 529, item X of the Brazilian New Procedural Code (enacted on House of Representatives version) gave force to the maritime court as an enforceable judgment. In this study, within the limits of a master thesis, our purpose is to research the possibility of exercising judicial activity outside the boundaries of the Judiciary Power - here called "shared jurisdiction , where we will be able to highlight a focus on the activity performed by the Maritime Court. On the ground of this delimitation of the subject, we shall briefly input our research outline. Initially, it was analyzed the maritime law as an autonomous science with emphasis in its codification, its concept, its sources and its spatial boundaries. Then, it was examined the special maritime procedures listed in the Codes CPC/39, CPC/73 and NCPC. For a deep investigation of the maritime special due process, it was consider absolutely necessary, yet concisely, to track the historical evolution of the concept of jurisdiction in order to be able to enter the second part of the work with regards to judicial review of decisions of the Maritime Court - linking, thus, to the so-called shared jurisdiction by having the Maritime Court performing judicial activity / Ainda que por intermédio de poucas palavras, julga-se conveniente delimitar e aclarar o objeto deste trabalho. Em época de intensa atividade legislativa, acirrou-se o debate acerca da natureza da decisão proferida pelo Tribunal Marítimo Brasileiro quando o art. 529, inciso X do NCPC (versão aprovada pela Câmara dos Deputados) atribuiu força de título executivo judicial ao acórdão marítimo. Neste trabalho, e nos limites de uma dissertação de mestrado, o propósito é estudar a possibilidade de exercício de atividade jurisdicional fora do âmbito exercido pelo Poder Judiciário em uma espécie do que aqui se denominou jurisdição compartilhada do enfoque da atividade judicante desempenhada pelo Tribunal Marítimo, na Lei n. 2.180/54 (Lei Orgânica do Tribunal Marítimo LOTM). Fixada, em linhas essenciais, a delimitação do tema, convém enunciar resumidamente o programa de nossa investigação. De inicio, discorreu-se sobre o direito marítimo como ciência autônoma, com destaque para sua codificação, seu conceito, suas fontes e seus limites espaciais. Em seguida, abordaram-se os procedimentos marítimos especiais que constam expressamente nos CPC/39, CPC/73 e NCPC. Para uma análise do processo marítimo, pareceu-nos absolutamente necessário, ainda que de forma concisa, acompanhar a evolução do conceito de jurisdição, adentrando-se, enfim, na segunda parte do trabalho, no tocante à revisão judicial das decisões do Tribunal Marítimo revolvendo a hipótese do exercício da atividade jurisdicional fora da estrutura judiciária