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UNIDROIT AND CMR

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 is otherwise complete. I am grateful to UNIDROIT for permitting me to provide access for these papers which you should access for your personal use only and not seek to reproduce for payment.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5fip51i5vfipbnn/AAB6EvIweDWz21qFaXoLvtsfa?dl=0


Review of carriage of goods by road, rail and multimodal transport from a UK perspective

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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.

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CMR-AC

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 CMR to work on issues arising from its provisions and with the support of legal practitioners and industry professionals to provide opinions as authoritative solutions to these issues. On the 13th and 14th October 2022 the first face to face meeting of experts took place. It had been decided that in the first place it was necessary to consider the principles that should govern the interpretation of CMR before moving on to the examination of substantive issues. This paper was produced to provide a basis for the discussion which took place at the meeting. It sets the context to the debate about methodologies for interpretation of uniform law conventions and their possible application to CMR. At the end of the paper some conclusions and suggestions were made to aid the discussion.  A link to this paper is given here:

Review of issues regarding the interpretation of CMR

A further paper was also produced to review the approach to interpretation of international conventions with particular reference to the CMR Convention. This paper is referred to in the paper immediately above. The references to the Annex Folder is a reference to a folder available currently only to members of the AC to place reviews of the approaches of the courts in their own countries. This paper is included in that folder. A link to the paper is given here:

Review of UK law on interpretation of international conventions

Successive carriage and the new CIM Rules

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 in this area.

Carriage of Goods by Road and Rail

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. It is hoped that, once published, this chapter might help to stimulate more of this kind of comparative work on carriage of goods.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/slnsi1jiju0f1o6/Carriage%20of%20goods%20by%20road%20and%20rail%20%285%29.docx?dl=0

A similar article is available by Mr Daniel Dąbrowski of the University of Szczecin. It is in Polish but I have taken the liberty of providing a link to a Google English translation of it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7bcfy9wy7bahcyk/Daniel%20A%20few%20remarks%20English%20T.docx?dl=0

UNECE documents on CMR formation

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 be downloaded for personal use and not reproduced in return for payment.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ws1phq2ujztfvme/AABupIOur4VGQO2ynInLiRXia?dl=0

The next link provides access to a document which outlines these and the UNIDROIT documents above.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpbbq3rudal9eu0/CMR%20Convention%20Development%20Materials.doc?dl=0