Arrest of Ships: Estonian Maritime Law and Practice under Review

Abstract

In 2015, the Ministry of Economy and Communications commissioned an analysis of the necessary tasks for the codification of the existing Estonian maritime law (de lege lata) and the law firm Consolato del Mare OÜ was assigned the task. A report on the analysis on 265 pages was then compiled and delivered to the ministry by three experts: Indra Kaunis as owner of that law firm, Alexander Lott and the author of this article.1 Based on this knowledge, the Ministry proceeded with the State procurement tender #176195 “Maritime Law Review” and a 3-year project (2017 – 2019) was launched. These three experts – Indra Kaunis, Indrek Nuut2 and the author – agreed among themselves which maritime laws they will analyse as the primary experts, and who will be the secondary expert helping the first in certain specific questions.