Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal

1999: Conference Proceedings
Addresses

Frank Stewart Dethridge Memorial Address 1999: Admiralty Jurisdiction and the Protection of Seafarers

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  • The Hon M.E.J. Black

Published 1999-09-25

Keywords

  • seafarer welfare,
  • Admiralty jurisdiction,
  • Admiralty court,
  • civil admiralty jurisdiction,
  • civil admiralty jurisprudence,
  • seafarers' wages claims,
  • maritime legal history,
  • contract of employment,
  • maritime lien for unpaid wages,
  • Merchant Shipping Act 1894,
  • priority of claims,
  • workers compensation,
  • employment rights,
  • Navigation Act 1912,
  • Seamen's Compensation Act 1911 (Cth),
  • Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 (Cth),
  • Seamen's Union of Australia,
  • Navigation Amendment (Employment of Seafarers) Bill 1998 (Cth),
  • Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth),
  • abandonment
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Abstract

Black proposes that the particular problems faced by seafarers and their just solution have been integral to the development of admiralty jurisdiction and jurisprudence as a whole. Approaching seafarer welfare as an object of special concern for admiralty courts, Black reviews the history of protections for seafarers (and especially wages) in Australia, New Zealand, and England.

This copy of the address was originally published in Volume 15, No 1 of the MLAANZ Journal (2000).

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