Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Table of Statutes and Other Instruments -- Table of Legislation -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO DELAY AS A RISK AND FORTUITY CONSIDERATIONS -- Introduction -- The use of the term 'delay' in the marine insurance law context -- Definition of 'peril' and delay -- General considerations on fortuity -- Fortuity and existing policy language -- Exclusion of delay -- Naturally occurring losses, fortuity and ordinary delay -- Ordinary delay -- Fortuity: analogy of wilful conduct of the assured and delay within the control of the assured -- Does delay or the peril causing delay have to be taken into account in assessing fortuity -- Knowledge of the assured as to the certainty of loss -- CHAPTER 2 CARGO INSURANCE AND DELAY: PHYSICAL LOSS TO THE SUBJECT-MATTER INSURED -- Introduction -- Delay and loss by deterioration -- A general review of the pre-MIA authorities -- 'Last cause in time' rule -- Delay as a proximate cause in deterioration cases -- (a) General overview of proximate causation -- (b) Proximate causation and delay following Leyland -- (c) How to apply Leyland to delay cases -- (d) The authorities of Lanasa Fruit and Norwich Union -- (e) Perils of the seas and delay -- (f) Inherent vice and delay -- (g) Deprivation perils and delay -- Delay being a contributing factor or a cause other than the proximate cause -- Delay and concurrent causation -- (a) Limits to the rule in Wayne Tank: ordinary delay and delay beyond the control of the assured as uninsured perils -- (b) Whether delay can be an independent cause of loss -- Agreements altering the proximate cause rule and delay -- CHAPTER 3 ISSUES ARISING FROM DELAY IN DELIVERY OF CARGO -- Introduction -- Meaning of delay in delivery -- Marine Insurance Act 1906 and delay in delivery