Celine is developing a busy commodities practice. She has advised in relation to a GAFTA arbitration and has assisted in various disputes concerning different metals, petroleum products, fertilizer, sugar, fresh fruit produce, as well as acting in usual cargo claims concerning rice, grains and cereals.
Celine is also regularly instructed to advise in various freight-forwarding cases concerning BIFA and CMR terms.
Celine also advises in relation to warehousing/storage issues (including frauds) and cases involving involuntary bailment. Celine assisted Ben Gardner in advising defendant insurers in respect of an alleged warehousing fraud concerning a large consignment of expensive wines. The case concerned an analysis of the issues raised in Quadra Commodities v XL Insurance Company SE & Ors [2022] EWHC 431 (Comm); [2023] EWCA Civ 432