War risks

• Advising an insurer on coverage following an airstrike on a port in Yemen.
• Advising an insurer on coverage and subrogation issues, particularly on the application of UK sanctions, following the alleged detention of a vessel in the Persian Gulf.
• Advising an insurer whether a vessel was covered for being an actual total loss when it was sold and scrapped after being detained in East Africa.
• Advising a shipowner on whether a charterparty contained an insurance code that precluded the shipowner from pursuing the charterer for damages following an attack on a vessel whilst it was in the Red Sea.

Innocent Owners’ Insurance / Mortgagees’ Interest Insurance

• Advising insurers on coverage issues in respect of a purported constructive total loss following the failure of a charterer to redeliver the vessel after the contractual redelivery date.
• Advising an insurer on whether a claim could be denied on the basis of a breach of fair presentation of the risk under section 3 of the Insurance Act 2015.

Hull and machinery

• Advising an insurer on coverage and subrogation issues in respect of a c. USD 10,000,000 claim arising out of the negligent repair of an engine.
• Acting on behalf of a reinsured in a USD 2.5 million reinsurance claim following a fire on a yacht.
• Advising an insurer on whether coverage for a claim for an actual total loss following a fire on board a vessel could be denied on the basis that a notification warranty had been breached and whether sections 10 and 11 of the Insurance Act 2015 affected the coverage position.
• Advising an insurer on the construction of a condition precedent in a policy concerning autonomous underwater vehicles.

Marine cargo insurance

• Drafting an opinion on English law regarding the construction of a storage clause for the purposes of Dutch proceedings.
• Advising an insurer on a specific performance claim regarding the right to investigate following a claim arising out of the alleged theft of USD 90,000,000 of copper.
• Acting on behalf of insurers concerning their application under the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 to obtain evidence for proceedings in the US in respect of a USD 80,000,000 fraudulent misrepresentation claim.

• Acting for a large commodities trader in a three-day LIAC arbitration regarding a damages claim under a sale contract for steel (led by Gemma Morgan).
• Successfully resisting an application for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal under s.69(8) of the Arbitration Act 1996 following the decision in Bunge S.A. v Pan Ocean Co., Ltd. [2025] EWHC 193 (Admiralty).
• Drafting and advising on an application and submissions under s.68 and s.57 of the Arbitration Act 1996 relating to two LMAA awards concerning off-hire (led by Gemma Morgan).
• Drafting an application for a Partial Final Award on a Kostas Melas basis in respect of unpaid hire (led by Gemma Morgan).

• Advising a shipowner on the effect of the Inter-Club New York Produce Exchange Agreement 1996 in respect of claims arising out of an attack on a vessel whilst it was in the Red Sea.
• Advising on the merits of a USD 20,000,000 claim arising out of the carriage of a jet engine under a long-term transport and logistics agreement.
• Acting on behalf of a shipowner in respect of an unsafe port claim following ice damage to a vessel whilst in Russia (led by Ben Gardner).
• Acting on behalf of a shipowner in respect of various claims arising out of the failure of the vessel’s inert gas generator (led by Andrew Leung).
• Acting on behalf of a shipowner in respect of an unsafe port claim following the vessel sustaining damage when it allided with a harbour in a West African port (led by Henry Ellis).
• Drafting claim submissions in respect of a claim for wrongful termination of a contract of affreightment that concerned the application of the EU’s Russian sanctions regime (led by Henry Ellis).
• Drafting pleadings and advice in relation to a limitation claim in the Admiralty Court concerning a multi-million dollar cargo claim following a fire on a vessel (led by William Mitchell).
• Assisting with an advice concerning, inter alia, whether cargo interests’ participation in a limitation claim would cause the English court, under Article 13(1) of the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976, to restrain cargo interests from enforcing a Letter of Undertaking in another jurisdiction (led by Natalie Moore and John Russell KC). 

• Assisting Peter Stevenson (as a pupil) with drafting opening submissions for a 4-day arbitration concerning non-payment for allegedly off-specification bunkers.
• Assisting Henry Ellis (as a pupil) with drafting a mediation position paper in respect of whether, on its true construction, a contract for the sale of oil contained a warranty as to the quality of the oil.