Experience

• Contentious work worldwide including: hull and machinery insurance and re-insurance coverage, charterers liability, collision, salvage, dock damage, engine damage, dry docking damage, hull and machinery recoveries, defending cargo claims and cargo recoveries, unsafe port, unsafe berth, charter party, large personal injury claims, P&I coverage, advising on general average, ship arrests and freezing orders in different jurisdictions and worldwide, MAIB inquiries, marine prosecutions and large pollution claims.
• Non-marine re-insurance including Saudi Arabian and Egyptian interests.
• Non-contentious work including: policy wordings and draft bills of lading.
• Advising national marine life saving organisation on: corporate killing, liability of on-scene commanders, agreements for provision of life guarding services throughout the United Kingdom, insurance of all aspects of their operation including boat rescue service, occupiers liability, professional indemnity, public liability and establishing new life guarding services around the United Kingdom coast.
• 14 years seagoing including sailing as Captain.
• Master Mariner Foreign Going - qualified 1980

Significant reported cases

• Bayoil SA v Seawind Tankers Corporation sub nom The Leonidas (2000).
• The owners of the cargo lately laden on board the ship 'River Gurara' v Nigerian National Shipping Line ltd (1997).
• Janet Robb (Widow of David Main Robb deceased) v F T Everard & Sons Ltd (1999).
• The Maersk Co Ltd & Anor V Keith Jeremy Wilson.

Clients

• Shipowners/managers
• Cargo owners/underwriters
• Charterers
• Commodity traders
• Hull and machinery underwriters
• P&I clubs
• Insurance brokers

Publications

• 'Seaways': Lloyd's Open Form 1990
• 'Lloyd's List' 'Court of Appeal says cross claim can make a difference' January 1999