ABSTRACT
Present-day Admiralty jurisdiction 13.5 The present successor to section 6 of the 1840 Act is section 20 of the Senior Courts Act 1981 (previously the Supreme Court Act 1981: see now the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, sect. 59 and Sch. 11, pt. I, para. 1(1)), which provides as follows:
13.6 It is beyond the scope of this book to consider the features of the Admiralty jurisdiction in any detail: for these, see McGuffie, Admiralty Practice (1964), Stevens, and the leading modern account by Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice by Nigel Meeson QC and John Kimbell (4th edn, 2011); see also an excellent treatment by Professor Sarah Derrington and James Turner, The Law and Practice of Admiralty Matters (OUP, 2006) and from a different perspective (with many fresh insights) Dr Aleka Mandaraka-Sheppard, Modern Maritime Law and Risk Management (2008), being the successor to her earlier Modern Admiralty Law (with Risk Management Aspects) (2001)). Reference should also be made to the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 61 on Admiralty Claims and the accompanying Practice Direction together with the detailed notes thereto (which benefit from the editorship of Master Jervis Kay QC, Admiralty Registrar, and Mr K. Houghton, Admiralty Marshal). However, in the context of the present work, certain features in respect of the jurisdiction over towage should be noted.
