John Dunt is a Consultant with Clyde & Co and also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton. He qualified as a solicitor in 1972 and joined Clyde & Co in 1975. He was a partner for 30 years from 1977 to 2007 specialising in marine insurance, with particular reference to cargo insurance.
John was ex-officio legal advisor to the Joint Cargo Committee from December 1999 to April 2007 and was involved in drafting the wordings used in marine cargo insurance policies worldwide to control terrorism risks. He was also a member of the Joint cargo Committee Working Party responsible for updating and revising the Institute Cargo Clauses 2009. He currently sits with the Lloyd's Market Association Steering Group overseeing the revisions to the Institute Trade and Commodity Clauses.
John Dunt is author of Marine Cargo Insurance (winner of the 2010 British Insurance Law Association prize) published by Informa in August 2009 as part of the Lloyd’s Shipping Law Library. His other publications include the chapter on Double Insurance in Insurance Disputes also published by Informa (2003, 2nd edition), and the chapter on the revised Institute Cargo Clauses 2009 (with William Melbourne) which was published in December 2009 in Volume 3 of The Modern Law of Marine Insurance (edited by Rhidian Thomas). John is now engaged in writing, with the assistance of contributors worldwide, International Cargo Insurance to be published in 2011 by Lloyd’s List Law (Informa) in the Lloyd's Shipping Law Library as a companion volume to Marine Cargo Insurance.
John currently advises insurers in his specialist field of marine cargo insurance.