Welcome to Maritime Law Consultants, Australia and New Zealand's only dedicated Consultancy providing Legal and Nautical Remedies in Maritime Law, including an expert witness service.

We are at the cutting edge of Maritime Law, sorting out marine disputes, recommending Maritime remedies or assisting you with your marine claim.

Maritime Law provides unique and powerful remedies that are unavailable in other areas of commercial law.

For example, these remedies can place an unsecured claimant ahead of a registered bank security, or allow a former creditor to sell a vessel... even though the vessel has been sold on to a new owner with a new registered first bank security!

Maritime Law remedies are available and span, inter alia, areas of cargo carriage, marine insurance (hull and cargo), shipping, fisheries, salvage and admiralty law.

In essence we identify your available remedies and can assist you directly to recover or defend.

Alternatively if litigation occurs, we can advise your Non Maritime Lawyer (or recommend a Maritime Lawyer) so as to enhance your claim or defence in Court.

References and Accreditations

Est. since 1982. Following is a list of foundational experience and qualifications upon which Maritime Law Consultants is built.

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Contact Details

AUSTRALIA

Telephone: 00 11 64 21 20 999 51

Email: contact@maritimeoffice.com

Postal Address:
Maritime Law Consultants
P.O. Box R119
Royal Exchange
Sydney 1225
Australia

NEW ZEALAND

Telephone: 021 20 999 51

Email: contact@maritimeoffice.com

Postal Address:
Maritime Law Consultants
PO Box 1361
Queenstown
New Zealand

MARITIME RISKS OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITIES

  • Law of Cargo Carriage by Sea
    • Cargo damages and claims
    • Bills of lading and implied terms and conditions
    • Hague Visby rules including see worthiness
    • Exclusions, limitations and time bars
  • Marine Insurance Law
    • Hull
    • Cargo
    • Liabilities
  • Shipping Law
    • Salvage claims
      • Salvor, salvee, environment, awards and special awards, Lloyds open form. "No cure no pay" salvage contention
    • Wreck, abandonment and washed up cargo
    • Towage contracts, harbours and piers
    • Navigation of ships and safety at sea
    • Limitation of ship liability
  • Admiral Law
    • Special maritime securities for banks and creditors - maritime lien ahead of bank.
    • Liens
      • Maritime, statutory, possessory and equitable
    • Pollution (including damage from ship wash)
    • Vicarious Liability
    • Pure economic loss
    • Time Bars
      • Salvage, collision, liens, pollution
    • European
      • Civil jurisdiction and judgment act
    • Admiralty Act
      • Actions in rem and in personam, arrest of vessel
    • Sale of Vessel
      • Creditor priorities - liens ahead of bank mortgages

The Consultancy

Our goal is to provide "added value" to our Clients in the professional and often complex areas of the Maritime law.

The Maritime, Banking and Shipping Industry are all too often unaware of the powerful remedies available to them in their dealings with maritime matters. These remedies derive from the common law, statutes, equity and the Admiralty Act itself.

All too often misunderstood, Maritime Law can simply "displace" the effect of non maritime laws - to the benefit of the maritime party or litigant...or more importantly to the detriment of the non marine party!