International Carriage Of
Goods By Road:CMR
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
The CMR is not and nor was it
intended to be a complete code of law regulating all aspects of the international carriage
of goods by road. It was always understood that the regime would have to be completed by
reference to relevant national law. In one country, however, entire books have been
written on filling the gaps, which is regrettable because such work is beguiling and tends
to draw courts through the gaps. Nonetheless, any account of the law of the CMR is
incomplete without some kind of account of purely domestic law. In this, the third edition
of what remains a book mainly on the CMR, rather than dig up bits of the substratum of
English domestic law as and when required, I have brought it in by cross-reference; the
cross-reference is to a second part of the book, in which I have sought to set out those
rules of law in context, i.e. the context of the law of England (also the law of Scotland)
governing the carriage of goods by road (solely) within the United Kingdom. So, the rules
of the CMR itself are considered in the first and main part of this book, with English
domestic law in the second part. My main aim is that the second part should complement the
first but at the same time provide a coherent summary of English domestic law as it
applies to contracts for the carriage of goods by road outside the scope of the CMR.
Cambridge, January 1, 1997
Table of Contents
Part I:
Application of the CMR
The Contract of Carriage
Documentation
The Journey
Claims
The Liability of the Carrier
Defences Available to the
Carrier
The Special Risks
Remedies
Part II: English Domestic Law
The Contract of Carriage
The Journey
Claims
The Liability of the Carrier
Defences
Remedies
Appendix A
Carriage of Goods By Road Act
1965
Appendix B
Convention Relative AU
Contract De Transport International De Merchandises Par Route
Appendix C
Carriage of Goods By Air Act
1979
Appendix D
British International Freight
Association(BIFA)- Standard Trading Conditions 1989 Edition
Appendix E
Road Haulage Association
Limited, Conditions or Carriage 1991 and Explanatory Notes
586 pages