Recent experience
- Acting for a major petrochemical company in claims against shipowners for contamination of cargo due to unseaworthiness and defending deadfreight and demurrage claims.
- Acting for numerous underwriters pursuing cargo claims in connection with major casualties.
- "RAFAELA S" (2005) - acting for the successful cargo underwriters in the House of Lords in relation to the applicability of the Hague-Visby Rules to "straight" bills of lading as a matter of English law.
- Major claims relating to logistics agreements for the carriage of humanitarian aid cargo into Iraq.
- Charterparty disputes relating to, inter alia, unseaworthiness, demurrage, deadfreight and failure to meet laycan.
- High Court litigation, various forms of arbitration (particularly LMAA and ad hoc) and mediation.
- Cargo claims relating to the international carriage of goods by sea and by road.
- Drafting (and advising on the drafting of) contracts for the sale/purchase of petrochemical products.
- Advising on disputes in relation to the sale/purchase of petrochemical products.
- Advising on a wide range of commercial and shipping disputes.
- Ship arrest and enforcement.