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The enduring and evolving legal legacy of the Titanic: an inquiry into marine casualty investigations and self-incrimination

The enduring and evolving legal legacy of the Titanic: an inquiry into marine casualty investigations and self-incrimination
The enduring and evolving legal legacy of the Titanic: an inquiry into marine casualty investigations and self-incrimination
Examines, with reference to the sinking of the Titanic, the evolution of marine casualty investigations. Reviews the disaster's influence on the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1914, the development of courts of marine inquiry, and the questions put to the Titanic's court of inquiry. Discusses the confidentiality of self-incriminating answers to questions put under the International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident, and notes the Titanic's influence on a 2005 Namibian marine casualty investigation
accidents, codes of practice, confidentiality, inquiries, legal history, namibia, privilege against self incrimination, safety at sea, ships
0021-9460
299-318
Staniland, Hilton
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Staniland, Hilton
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Staniland, Hilton (2012) The enduring and evolving legal legacy of the Titanic: an inquiry into marine casualty investigations and self-incrimination. Journal of Business Law, Special Edition (4), 299-318.

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Examines, with reference to the sinking of the Titanic, the evolution of marine casualty investigations. Reviews the disaster's influence on the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1914, the development of courts of marine inquiry, and the questions put to the Titanic's court of inquiry. Discusses the confidentiality of self-incriminating answers to questions put under the International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident, and notes the Titanic's influence on a 2005 Namibian marine casualty investigation

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Published date: 2012
Keywords: accidents, codes of practice, confidentiality, inquiries, legal history, namibia, privilege against self incrimination, safety at sea, ships
Organisations: Southampton Law School

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Local EPrints ID: 343071
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343071
ISSN: 0021-9460
PURE UUID: 8368720c-7ff2-431c-850b-bf96a23540d5

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Date deposited: 24 Sep 2012 10:35
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 11:58

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Author: Hilton Staniland

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