Laytime and Demurrage

book summary

The law relating to laytime and demurrage is a creation of the English common law arising from judicial decisions going back more than 200 years. The earliest case in the present edition is Wolff v. Hardcastle (1798) 1 B&P 316, a case in the section on liability for demurrage dealing with the description of a cargo consignee. The most recent is The Vine (2011) 1 Lloyd's Rep 301, a decision from part 6 of the first volume of Lloyd's Law Reports published on 18 March 2011, relating to a delay getting into berth. Since publication of the first edition, some 300 new judicial and arbitral decisions have been added. This new edition on its own adds well over 40 such decisions.
CONTENTS:
General Principles
Laytime Clauses - Fixed and Customary Laytime:
-Fixed Laytime
-Laytime by Reference to Rates of Working Cargo
-Customary Laytime
Commencement of Laytime:
-Readiness to Load and Discharge
-Changes to the Beginning of Laytime
Interruptions and Exceptions to Laytime:
-Adverse Weather
-Holidays
-Strikes
-Shifting and Lightening
Other Laytime Matters:
-Completion of Laytime
-Averaging and Reversing
-Multiple Charters
Demurrage:
Liability for Demurrage
Despatch
Detention
Frustration
Appendix