Introduction
and
Welcome Session

Welcome and Opening Address by
Manuel Carlier
General Manager 
Spanish Shipowners Association ANAVE

Welcome by 
Joaquim TOSAS I MIR
President 
Barcelona Port Authority

Welcome by
Felip PUIG
Conseller Politica Territorial I Obras Publicas, Generalitat Cataluna

Conference Chairman 
John Guy
Consulting editor, "The Maritime Advocate "

special session on the

"PRESTIGE"

SESSION Chairman 
John Guy
Consulting editor, "The Maritime Advocate "

session 1
 
Ship Arrest & Security

• The 1999 Ship Arrest Convention – will it work?
• Vessel abandonment and repossession
• Why have corporate veils?
• Lifting the corporate veil
• Will US demands for transparency make corporate veils more transparent?  

SPEAKERS:
Alex LAUDRUP
Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel Kierkegaard, Denmark

Ms Olga Baglay  
Watson, Farley & Williams, UK

Tim TIMMERS 
Senior Legal Counsel
Dutch Ministry of Transport

session 2 

Litigation, Arbitration & ADR

• Arbitration, litigation or mediation– a user’s viewpoint
• Arbitration from an advocate’s and an arbitrator’s viewpoint
• London as the world’s legal centre. Is there still a role for the rest of the world?
• Arbitration – handling small claims
• ADR – opting for the right form of resolution
• Mediation – a substitute for litigation? 
• Should we publish arbitration awards?
• What should the role of the courts be? Where do we draw the line on manifest disregard of the law?  

SPEAKERS:
Manfred Arnold
Director, Society of Maritime Arbitrators (SMA), USA

David Taylor
Permanent Secretary of the London Joint Hull Committee 
Special Advisor to the International Underwriters Association (IUA) of London

Michael Baker-Harber
London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA), UK  

session 3 

Carriage of Goods by Sea

• CMI/UNCITRAL- the last great hope for a universal COGSA
• USA – still going its own way?
• Package limitations – why the discrepancies?
• Time limits – time for uniformity  

SPEAKERS:
Stuart N. Beare
Chairman CMI, International Sub Committee on Issues of Transport Law

Nicolette van der JAGT
Secretary General, European Shippers Council

Don MurnaNe
Partner, Freehill Hogan Mahar , USA

Christoph HASCHE
Taylor Wessing, Germany

session 4: 
Dangers & Disputes – New Laws for a New World

• Terrorism – the legal and commercial impact
• Do we need new laws in a new world?
• Can open registers cope with demands for increasing transparency?
• Assessing the risk
• Salvage in a changing world

SPEAKERS:
Brad Berman
Executive Vice President & General Council
Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR), USA

Conclusions

[ 19:30 - 01:00 ]

Opus 2002 
Grand Gala Dinner

We have the pleasure of inviting you to a special Gala Dinner to celebrate the conclusion of OPUS 2002. The dinner will be held at the world famous wine caves of Codorniu in the Penedes wine growing area of Catalonia.
As a suitable finale, our theme for the dinner will be a classical music fantasy. You will be invited to enjoy us in the romantic surroundings of the Museum and Grand Cellar of Codorniu wine caves, built at the turn of the century by the Catalan architect Puig I Cadafalch and now a protected National Historic Monument. 
You will enjoy the subtle pleasures of fine food and fine wines together with the enduring pleasure of classical music in many different forms. Each dish you eat and each wine you drink will be punctuated by specially selected music and after dinner there will be dancing into the small hours - the perfect way to round off an unforgettable weekend. 

Leave hotel 19:30 hrs, arrive wine caves 20:30 hrs, and return to hotel at approximately 01:00 hrs. 

Limited to conference delegates and partners.