The Structure of Carrier's Liability and Burden of Proof Under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly Or Partly by Sea (2009).

Download or read book The Structure of Carrier's Liability and Burden of Proof Under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly Or Partly by Sea (2009). written by Assefa Aregay Sefara and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new development in the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, 2009 (commonly called Rotterdam rules) is the formula it adopted to deal with the basic question of the carrier's liability. It has set out a new structure of the carrier's liability and the burden of proof. Still its approach is not totally novel but extracted from the previous maritime conventions. It has preserved the 'fault-based liability system' established by the Brussels Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading, 1924 (also known as Hague Rules), the Hague Rules amended with 1968 Visby Protocol and the SDR protocol of 1979 (Hague-Visby Rules) and International Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea 1978 (Hamburg Rules). This piece of work analyses the new structure of carrier's liability introduced by this convention.