His Honour Harvey Crush

Called: 2001 (Solicitor 1963, Higher Courts Advocate 1994)
Middle Temple

Since leaving the Bench in 2001, Harvey Crush has practised as an arbitrator and mediator, mainly in aviation and fatal accident cases, drawing on previous experience for 30 years as a City solicitor and advocate specialising in aviation disputes worldwide and 16 years full and part time as a Judge. Parties have ranged from a government department and a national carrier through insurers, corporate aircraft operators, parties injured on the ground, handling companies and passengers to individual commercial and private pilots. The issues have included complex commercial and financial agreements, disputes on policy wording and numerous accidents.
He is particularly well-known for his range of experience and his incisiveness and fast practical grasp of anything in the aviation field.

Qualifications

Accredited mediator.
Current private pilot with Multi and IMC ratings.

Appointments

Judicial
High Court Costs Assessor (1979 - 1995)
Assistant Recorder (1987 - 1992)
Recorder (1992 - 1995)
Circuit Judge (1995 - 2001)
Deputy Circuit Judge (2001 - 2004).

Other
Supreme Court Rule Committee (1984 - 1988)
Vice-President (Chairman), City of London Law Society (1989 - 1991)
President, City of London Law Society (1994 - 1995)
Honorary Solicitor, British Association of Aviation Consultants (1990 - 1995), Chairman 2002 - 2004, Deputy Chairman (2001 - 2002 & 2004 - 2006)
Panel Arbitrator and Mediator, Royal Aeronautical Society.

Languages

Spanish.
Able to read instructions in French.

Publications

The British Manual of International Air Carriage - 2009 published by Irwin Law.

Papers delivered

Numerous papers to the International Bar Association and the Aviation Law Association of Australasia on aviation liability, regulation and mediation.

Memberships

Fellow and member of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society and member of its Air Law Group
Technical and Air Safety Committee, the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators
Council of the British Association of Aviation Consultants (past chairman)
The Aviation Club of the UK

Personal

He is a Past Master of the City of London Solicitors' Company, has served on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Farriers and is a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.

Interests

Between cases His Honour Harvey Crush's interests are in travel and in maintaining his currency as a pilot.