Exciting news! The Steven Wallace Maritime Trust Bursary Applications for 2026 open on 1 September 2025 and close on 31 January 2026. Please refer to the Steven Wallace Maritime Trust Page for more details.
The selected cases deal not only with direct decisions relating to marine insurance policies and principles, but also to bill of lading and charterparty cases where the outcome has an effect on the insurers and owners of cargo.
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The United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, also known as the “Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships”, was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 7 December 2022. The convention establishes a harmonized regime for giving international effect to judicial sales, while preserving domestic law governing the procedure of judicial sales and the circumstances in which judicial sales confer clean title. By ensuring legal certainty as to the title that the purchaser acquires in the ship, internationally, the Convention is designed to maximize the price that the ship is able to attract in the market (and thus the proceeds available for distribution among creditors), and to promote international trade.
A meeting was held on 15 August 2024 at the office of Norton Rose Fullbright in Sandton to discuss the revival of the Gauteng chapter of the MLA. Picture below from left to right: Adv Ghandi Badela, Vikesh Ramtahar (Old Mutual Insure), Nicholene Naidoo (NRF) Jeffry Butt (Bryte Insurance), Sharmila Naidoo (EY) and Peter Lamb (NRF).
