Published 2014-09-10
Keywords
- legal ethics,
- ethics in maritime activity,
- maritime history,
- 1989 Salvage Convention,
- good faith
- general average,
- seafarer welfare,
- maritime lien,
- SOLAS 1974,
- UNCLOS 1982,
- CLC 1992,
- public international law,
- Rotterdam Rules,
- Maritime Transport Act 1994 (NZ),
- marine safety,
- marine pollution,
- Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (NZ),
- Fisheries Act 1996 (NZ),
- Resource Management Act 1991 (NZ),
- Employment Relations Act 2000 (NZ),
- the 'Insung No 1',
- Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 (NZ),
- Admiralty jurisdiction,
- action in rem,
- Bangalore Principles,
- judicial ethics ...More
Abstract
In this paper, Broadmore argues that maritime law has a strong ethical foundation, which marks it out as different from other branches of the law. He develops this hypothesis by reference to examples, as well as dealing with ethics in a more traditional way by discussing the topic with reference to lawyers and judges in New Zealand. Broadmore addresses the way in which ethical considerations constrain behaviour in relation first to participants in the maritime sector (such as ship owners, cargo owners, insurers, officers and crew, etc), secondly to maritime lawyers, and finally to judges.