Carriage of Goods by Sea in the Practice of the USSR Maritime Arbitration Commission (Law in Eastern Europe Series No. 43) by W. Albert Timmermans

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Carriage of Goods by Sea in the Practice of the USSR Maritime Arbitration Commission (Law in Eastern Europe Series No. 43) by W. Albert Timmermans. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Netherlands (xvi and 343 pp. including text of USSR Merchant Shipping Code, Bibliography, Tables of cases and legislation, and Index). Hardback Price £74; US$128; Dfl. 215. The object of this monograph in the words of the author is ‘to provide a description of the civil aspects of the carriage of goods by sea under Soviet law.’ He has eschewed a discussion of those aspects of carriage dependent on acts of state planning, since they ‘would not be very interesting for Western practising lawyers.’ and concentrated instead on forms of carriage with a purely contractual base, i.e. those involving an international dimension. The result is a comprehensive review of Soviet law presented in a style familiar and attractive to a common lawyer with legal principles clearly identified and illustrated by appropriate examples drawn from case law. The subject matter is treated systematically with chapter divisions falling into a traditional pattern and covering, inter alia, rights and duties of the shipper, carrier and consignee; charter parties; bills of lading; loading and unloading; laytime demurrage and dispatch; dangerous goods; payment of freight; termination of the contract; and liability of the …