"Written by a team of top academics and highly-experienced legal practitioners, this book offers a comprehensive, well-informed and thoroughly practical guide on what is a very complex area of law. It firstly provides a critical analysis of contemporary legal issues concerning offshore contracts, before going on to deliver an in-depth analysis of the numerous liability regimes inherently connected to offshore operations. Key features of Offshore Contracts and Liabilities: Detailed insight into contemporary legal issues concerning offshore contracts, including Supplytime, Heavycon and BIMCOIn-depth analysis of the current liability regimes with clear reference to contemporary industry practiceThorough examination of the current state of the law from national, regional and international perspectivesUp-to-date coverage of hot topics such as liability for offshore installations, knock-for knock agreements in offshore contracts and recently-developed new standard forms, such as Windtime. This book is an indispensable guide for legal practitioners, academics and industry professionals worldwide"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
BIMCO's offshore contracts / Grant Hunter -- Key aspects of new WINDTIME form / Lars Rosenberg Overby -- HEAVYCON 2007 : liabilities, exceptions, indemnities / Simon Baughen -- Knock-for-knock clauses in offshore contracts : the fundamental principles / Richard W. Williams -- The construction of mutual indemnities and knock-for-knock clauses / Simon Rainey QC -- Consequential loss exclusion clauses in offshore contracts : the need for greater clarity / Chris Kidd -- Excluding consequential damages / Robert Gay -- Wilful misconduct and gross negligence exclusions in knock for knock provisions in offshore contracts / Elizabeth Blackburn QC and Jeremy Lightfoot -- Knock for knock : the P&I perspective / Fabien Lerede -- Standard contracts used in the offshore insurance sector : clear and unambiguous? / George Leloudas and Bariş Soyer -- Pollution from offshore rigs and installations : UK law / Stephen Tromans QC -- The Norwegian perspective with regard to liability regimes concerning oil rigs and installations / Erik Rosaeg -- Offshore injury : whose jurisdiction, what law? / Andrew Tettenborn -- Marine spatial planning : an incoming tide of opportunity or liability? / Gregory Jones QC and David Graham.
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