Author Archives: cmrman

The 5th edition of CMR: Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods by Road by Andrew Messent and David A Glass was published last month (April 2025). Follow this link for more details: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003546825/cmr-contracts-international-carriage-goods-road-andrew-messent-david-glass

. Click on the link for a paper providing an overview of the law of carriage of goods by road, rail and multimodal transport. It includes a number of questions to stimulate thought which may be useful for those new to this area of law.

Recent efforts have been made to create an Advisory Council with a view to promoting uniform interpretation of the provisions of the CMR Convention. The Institut du Droit International des Transports (IDIT) based in Rouen, with the support of the University of Rouen initiated this initiative.  It aims to bring together academic experts on CMRContinue reading “CMR-AC”

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0rjnfxa4l1ib4h/Successive%20carriage%20and%20the%20new%20CIM%20Rules.doc?dl=0 Use the link above for my article on the 1999 CIM Protocol and its provisions on successive carriage. It is of interest for CMR as it provides a comparison between the two sets of rules on successive carriage as well as containing some of the history of the creation of the CMR rules inContinue reading “Successive carriage and the new CIM Rules”

Click on the link for an article by me on the case of Spectra International Plc v. Hayesoak Ltd which dealt with issues concerning bailment on terms and circular indemnity published in Lloyd’s Commercial and Maritime Law Quarterly. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wg3ddt4nt26ryer/SPECTRA.doc?dl=0

Click on the link for my article on Rosewood Trucking v Brian Balaam on successive carriage under the CMR Convention published in Shipping and Transport Lawyer International. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9g0y0670rc3l6d4/CMR%20and%20Successive%20carriage3%20%281%29.doc?dl=0

Click the link (or copy and paste) for a draft chapter on a comparative review by me of carrier liability in respect of the carriage of goods by road and rail. It is hoped that in due course a final version will be included in a research handbook which is in course of production. ItContinue reading “Carriage of Goods by Road and Rail”

The link below provides access to my collection of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe documents relating to the preparation of the CMR Convention (Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Road 1956). I am grateful to the Commission for permission to permit access to these papers which should only beContinue reading “UNECE documents on CMR formation”

Article 2 of the CMR Convention – A Reappraisal Published in Journal of Business Law 2000 pp 562-586 Click or copy and paste this link to access the paperhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/8qoufbjbbsted00/Article%202%20of%20the%20CMR%20Convention%20.doc?dl=0

The dropbox link below provides access to those copies of the the preliminary work done by UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) in the course of the development of the Convention on the Contract for the Carriage of Goods by Road 1956. Apart from missing one of the papers it isContinue reading “UNIDROIT AND CMR”