Martin Watson - Partner

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; large pollution claims;
Non-marine re-insurance including Saudi Arabian and Egyptian interests;
Non-contentious work including: policy wordings; 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.

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