Shipping Law Handbook provides a comprehensive collection of all the source materials most commonly referred to by those involved in shipping litigation or arbitration, whether as shipowners, lawyers, arbitrators, claims handlers or insurers.

The contents include International Conventions (with lists of current parties), statutes and statutory instruments, arbitration rules, charterparties, bills of lading, insurance clauses and other standard contracts.

The following areas are covered:

• Arrest, Jurisdiction and Applicable Law
• Arbitration
• Limitation of Liability
• Cargo Claims
• Collision
• Marine Insurance
• Oil Pollution
• Salvage, Towage and General Average
• Standard Forms

The fifth edition has been fully updated to include:

• LMAA Intermediate Claims Procedure (2009)
• LMAA/Baltic Exchange Mediation Terms (2009)
• Regulation 593/2008 on the law applicable to contractual regulations (Rome I)
• Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010
• Institute Cargo Clauses A, B, C (2009)
• Institute War Clauses (Cargo) (2009)
• Institute Strikes Clauses (Cargo) (2009) 
• International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001
• Wreckhire 2011
• Wreckfixed 2011
• Wreckstage 2011
• Congenbill 2007
• Updated lists of parties to International Conventions