14.1 This chapter focuses on those areas where South African law has developed differently from English law,2 and avoids dealing with general insurance principles that are not relevant to marine cargo3 insurance. The chapter relies heavily on four main fairly readily available sources, namely, the current marine insurance section in the insurance chapter in volume 12 of The Law of South Africa 4 ; the textbook developed from the LAWSA chapter entitled General Principles of Insurance Law 5 ; the marine insurance chapter in Gordon & Getz 6 ; and the marine insurance chapters in Professor John Hare’s book, Shipping Law and Admiralty Jurisdiction in South Africa.7