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LSLC announces its 2024 Prize Essay Competition
At the Centre’s recent seminar on RTI v MUR and Force Majeure Clauses held at Linklaters, Lord Justice Males, the Chairman of that event, was pleased to announce that LSLC’s Chairman, Dr Aleka Sheppard, has re-launched its Prize Essay Competition which, previously, had been initiated by the Centre in 2002 jointly with CTC.
The subjects offered for this year’s competition are:
(1) Autonomous shipping – how this will impact the shipping industry, including safety considerations and whether the Collision Regs 1972 will have a continuing role as ships become increasingly more automated.
(2) Bulk carrier casualties from the 1980s to the present day and can anything further be done to improve the safety record
(3) Greener shipping – is the shipping industry succeeding in achieving its goals and what more can be done?
(4) Is STCW Convention still fit for purpose? What could be done to improve it?
(5) How to tackle fair pay for seafarers?
For further details with regard to prizes on offer, Rules for submission and important dates to remember please click here
Excerpt from the Reflections of Lord Thomas stated at the 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
“….But what of the future? Things are going to change, …..what I think is now apparent is things will change much more rapidly: the first is the effect of digitalisation. There is no doubt that it is having a dramatic effect on the way disputes are resolved, I think that we will, probably, within the very near future, go away from the paper file to arbitrations and to court, to ensure that we do everything within the electronic file. Secondly, I think the era of video evidence is coming – having spent a lot of the past year dealing with evidence over a video link, I see nothing wrong with it and we’re going to go to distance hearings, but we’ve got to be very careful with what we do, because we must not dehumanise the law. One of the great benefits of being here tonight – and it’s been wonderful to see everyone getting up and chatting – is that this is a community and, as we move forward to court procedures that will be more remote, we must keep the community – and the Centre is a community”.
