“…ts of the Convention was to enable salvors to claim that their liability could be limited in the same way as owners and charterers; this reverses The Tojo Maru [1972] AC 242.…”
“…hat the general purpose of conferring a right to limit was to encourage the provision of international trade by way of sea-carriage. Lord Reid in The Toju Maru [1972] AC 242 (referring to the 1957 Convention) and Mr Justice Thomas in The Aegean Sea (referring to the 1976 Convention) considered that this meant that the provisions of…”