BOOK REVIEW PLACES OF REFUGE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE CMI DRAFT CONVENTION By Eric Van Hooydonk ISBN: 978-1-84311-841-1 Lloyds List, London www.informa.com A 'MAGNIFICENT AND TIMELY' WORK CONCERNING PLACES OF REFUGE FOR SHIPS IN DISTRESS An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers If you're professionally involved in the world of shipping, transport and maritime law, whether practitioner, student or academic, you need this invaluable work of reference from Lloyd's List. It addresses one of the thorniest and most topical issues pertaining to worldwide shipping: the problem of what to do about -- and where to put -- a vessel foundering in distress off a coastline. Certainly this is a matter that has confounded national and city states since the early days of sail. Significantly in the opening pages, the author quotes Pliny the Younger (who [we believe] chronicled the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 71!) who applauds the construction of a port on the Italian coast (now Citta Vechia) as a safe haven that would save countless lives. Just goes to show how long -- and longer -- the problem has been with us and which, almost two millennia later has acquired new and often horrifying dimensions, due to security issues and the risk of environmental pollution. It is the reluctance of many coastal states to agree to -- and adhere to -- specific legal arrangements for governing ships in distress which persists as a vexed issue worldwide and which ...
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