Berlingieri on Arrest of Ships (Lloyd's Shipping Law Library)

Established as the source of information for all aspects of ship arrest, Berlingieri on Arrest of Ships, analyses the provisions of the 1952 International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to the Arrest of Sea-Going Ships and the 1999 International Convention on Arrest of Ships (entering into force September 2011) also on the background of their travaux préparatoires and looks at issues including: • the claims in respect of which a ship may be arrested • the conditions for obtaining an order of arrest; • the ships that may be arrested • the need, if any, for a security; • the manner by which a ship that has been arrested may be released; • the possibility of re-arrest and multiple arrest and • the jurisdiction for the arrest and the merits of the claims.