Original scientific paper
Limitation of liability of the railway carrier for damage to goods
Nikoleta Radionov
; Faculty of law Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article analyses the provisions of positive Croatian law regulating the problem of liability of the railway carrier for damage to goods, with an emphasis on the institute of limitation of liability of the carrier. A comparative analysis is presented of the quality of the provisions regulating international and national railway transport, as well as the relationship of these provisions with the provisions governing other modes of transport. Finally, new findings are presented regarding the manner of resolving compensation
claims within the national railway goods carrier HŽ-Cargo, which is still the sole such carrier, with regard to the application of the right to limit liability and to the application of this institute in the practice of Croatian courts of law.
Keywords
railway; railway carrier; transport of goods; liability of carrier; Croatian Railways (HŽ); limitation of liability; SDR; COTIF; loss of the right to limit liability; Act on Contracts of Carriage by Rail
Hrčak ID:
70305
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2011.
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