Review article

Liability of Carriers of Passengers by Sea According to the Legislation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland de lege lata and de lege ferenda

Marija Pospišil Miler ; Lošinjska plovidba d.d., Rijeka, Croatia
Marija Pospišil ; North of England P&I, Hong Kong

Abstract

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) has since the very beginning played an important role in the work on international maritime law relating to carriage of passengers and their luggage by sea, started in the early 20th century
and also in efforts to harmonize these achievements with the 2002 Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea. In order to provide the best possible protection for passengers travelling by sea, the UK has made considerable efforts to remove barriers for the ratifi cation and implementation of the 2002 Athens Convention by initiating the proposal for the adoption of the Reservation and Guidelines for the implementation of this Convention, and has worked towards reaching political agreement within the European Union (EU) on introducing
the provisions of the Athens Convention into EU law.
The intention of this article, therefore, is to determine how the international conventions on the transport of passengers and their luggage by sea, which are presently in force, can best be implemented in the internal UK law and also what can be expected in
this respect de lege ferenda, since the UK will no doubt play an important role in the process of ratifi cation of the 2002 Athens Convention and the inclusion of its provisions in the EU law.

Keywords

harmonization of international maritime law; transport of passengers by sea; liability of carriers

Hrčak ID:

42921

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/42921

Publication date:

26.10.2009.

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