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Table of contents

  • Letter from Lord Donaldson to the Deputy Prime Minister
  • Overview
  • 1. Introduction
  • Background
  • The Terms of Reference
  • Scope
  • Aim
  • Structure
  • 2. The current intervention powers
  • Intervention Powers
  • 3. The problem
  • Implementation of Intervention Powers
  • Salvage Services
  • Compensation and Liability
  • Prosecutions
  • 4. A new approach
  • Command and Control
  • The Man (SOSREP)
  • Initial Response
  • The Intervention Trigger
  • Major Incidents
  • Accommodation and Communications
  • Examples of the Decisions Facing SOSREP
  • Christos Bitas
  • 5. Offshore Installations
  • 6. Recommendations
  • The Adequacy of the Powers of Intervention
  • The Problem
  • A New Approach
  • Offshore Installations
  • Appendix 1: Lord Donaldson's review
  • Members of the review
  • Secretariat to the review
  • Appendix 2: Approaches of other governments
  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • France
  • Germany
  • The Netherlands
  • Norway
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • USA
  • Appendix 3: List of those who contributed to the review
  • Appendix 4: Specific intervention powers
  • Power to require ships to be moved
  • Temporary exclusion zones
  • Control of air space
  • Ports and harbours
  • Wreck removal convention
  • Appendix 5: Salvage Awards - Lloyd's Open Forms
  • LOF 80
  • The Salvage Convention 1989
  • LOF 90
  • LOF 95
  • Appendix 6: Command and control - Land versus maritime

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  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 1 (13 kb)
  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 2 (20 kb)
  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 3 (20 kb)
  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 4 (21 kb)
  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 5 (17 kb)
  • LLOYD'S standard form of Salvage agreement - part 6  (20 kb)
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