Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - COLLISIONS AT SEA—HOW? AND COLLISION CASES—JUDGMENTS AND DIAGRAMS
COLLISIONS AT SEA—HOW? by Cdr. M. D. Dewar. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow (1989, xxviii and 852 pp., plus 18 pp. Appendices and 47 pp. Indices). Hardback.
COLLISION CASES—JUDGMENTS AND DIAGRAMS (2nd Edition) by Captain F. J. Buzek, Member of the Rotterdam Bar, Partner, Loeff Claeys Verbeke, Rotterdam, and Captain H. M. C. Holdert, Nautical Adviser, Loeff Claeys Verbeke. Lloyd’s of London Press, London (1990, xxiii and 313 pp., plus 7 pp. Appendices and 8 pp. Index). Hardback £58.
One can be fairly brief about both these books, though for different reasons.
Buzek and Holdert updates and expands the first edition of the same work (previously reviewed here; see [1985] LMCLQ 141) and the pattern remains the same; extracts from the headnotes of reported collision cases—nearly all post-war—together with clear and informative diagrams, which are an invaluable aid for later lawyers attempting to make sense of them in advising clients. The fact that many of the cases turn on the facts and are concerned with the correct degree of blame apportionable in given situations may offend academic legal
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