Ridley's Law Of The Carriage Of Goods By Land, Sea And Air

by Jasper Ridley, Carole Murray

Ridley's Law of the Carriage of Goods by Land, Sea and Air addresses the relevant common law principles and the requirements of statutory regulation both under English Law and throughout the EEA pursuant to the EU common transport policy. Looks at carriage of goods by land considering domestic carriage by each of road, rail and inland waterway, the application of standard contractual terms such as RHA and FTA conditions and international carriage pursuant to the CMR and CIM conventions. Deals with carriage of goods by sea under charterparties, bill lading and other transport documents and statutory regulation arising pursuant to the Hague Visby Rules and discusses the application of other discrete international regimes arising under the Hague Rules, the Hamburg Rules and the more recently promulgated Rotterdam rules. Covers the carriage of goods by air under the air carriage rules arising pursuant to the Montreal Convention Regime and the various Warsaw Convention Regimes. Discusses issues relating to the performance of the carriage of goods. Covers carriage of goods pursuant to electronic documentation both generally and pursuant to the various international regimes. Addresses multi-modal carriage under contractual terms (such as BIFA conditions and the UNCTAD/ICC Rules for Multimodal Transport Documents) and the various international regimes. Discusses the statutory regulation applicable to the performance of contractual obligations for the carriage of goods including regulation as to the adequacy of the transport vehicle or craft for carriage, the licensing of transport operators and their personnel and the freedom of transport operators to provide carriage eservices throughout the EEA. Describes the most critical contractual issues surrounding carriage of goods law, including: the incorporation and interpretation of contractual terms;  the respective duties of the various contracting parties; the incidents of breach and the liabilities arising.

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

Jasper Ridley was a British writer, known for historical biographies. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the Sorbonne. He trained and practiced as a barrister, before starting to write. During World War II, he was a conscientious objector and was, by his own account, violently abused while in a detention camp. He served on St Pancras Borough Council from 1945 to 1949, and stood, unsuccessfully, as Labour Party candidate for Winchester in 1955 general election.