Publications

Publications

The links below provide access to publications that may be of interest.

• Dawson & Associates presentation to New Zealand Federation of Commercial Fishermen conference 2010
• Joint presentation to Major Fleet Operators' Seminar presented by Dawson & Associates and Maritime Management Services
• Are your crew trained for their jobs?
• Beware of dry rot
• Compulsory pilotage: The divided command
• Expedition yachts & pugnacious coastal states
• Fuel for a flagging debate
• Liability of classification societies
• Negligent ship survey?
• Port Authorities and Salvage within port limits – Oui or non?
• Salvage
• Ship mortgages currently registered with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) will be transferred to the new Personal Property Securities
• Ship Registration: Some practical guidelines
• Tisand (Pty) Ltd v the owners of the ship MV "Cape Moreton"
• Safey Should be Paramount 

Foreign Charter Vessels

The links below provide access to articles and items relating to the operation of FCV in New Zealand

•  “The Legal Regime Governing the Operation of Foreign Charter Fishing Vessels in New Zealand”  by Peter Dawson & Renee Hunt
•  "Not in New Zealand water's surely? Labour and human rights abuses aboard foreign fishing vessels."   by Christina Stringer, Glennn Simmons & Daren Coulston
• “Term of Reference “ The Ministerial Inquiry into Foreign Charter Vessels
•  Code of Practice for FCV’s
•  Professional Skipper article September 2011  by Keith Ingram
•  “Modern Day Slavery: Employment Conditions for Foreign Fishing Crews in New Zealand Waters”  by Jennifer Devlin
•  Newspaper Articles 
• For a list of submission and submitters to the Ministerial Inquiry please click here

Case Summaries

 Click here for links to the brief case summaries listed below, which have featured in Dawson & Associates Ltd's Latest News.

July- September 2009

• Independent Fisheries Ltd v Altair II

January-March 2009

• Vero Insurance NZ Ltd v Posa – (2008) 3 NZLR 701

October-December 2008

• Birchall v Maritime New Zealand

July-September 2008

• Birchall v Maritime New Zealand
• Omunkete Fishing (Pty) Ltd v The Ministry of Fisheries
• Department of Labour v Wallace Investment Ltd

April-June 2008

• UAB Garant v The Ship Aleksandr Ksenofontov

January-March 2008

• Heilbrunn v Lightwood PLC (Australia) October 2007

October-December 2007

• New Zealand China Clays Ltd and Others v Tasman Orient Line CV
• Birkenfield v Kendall