Charterparties:

• 5-day LMAA arbitration concerning political unsafety due to detention under a time charterparty (led by Saira Paruk).
• 3-day LMAA arbitration concerning whether a condition precedent to a charterparty was satisfied (led by Nigel Cooper KC).
• Assisting with the s.69 appeal in Bunge S.A. v Pan Ocean Co., Ltd (The “Sagar Ratan”) [2025] EWHC 193 (Admlty) concerning the interpretation of the BIMCO Infectious and Contagious Diseases Clause for Time Charter Parties 2015 and its application to COVID-19 port restrictions.
• Assisting with a London arbitration following a fire onboard a ro-ro ferry resulting in a constructive total loss with extensive firefighting and quantum expert evidence.
• Advising on the MARPOL sulphur content regulations for bunkers and their consequences under time charterparties.

Bills of lading:

• London Arbitration: claims and counterclaims arising from the detention of a vessel due to sanctioned cargo and alleged unseaworthiness (led by Yash Kulkarni KC and Ben Gardner).
• Drafting pleadings and submissions in cargo claims, including for short and damaged delivery of soft commodities.

Salvage:

• LOF arbitration concerning a containership grounding, raising pollution management and engineering issues (led by Stewart Buckingham KC).

General Average:

• Tom is acting in multiple general average arbitrations following groundings of vessels.

Shipbuilding:

• London arbitration: breach of warranty claim arising from substantial defects affecting a luxury new-build superyacht, involving detailed quantum expert evidence. A hearing was averted by late settlement (led by Nigel Cooper KC and Benjamin Joseph).
• Assisting with an advice on the guarantee and indemnities in a shipbuilding contract for an offshore support vessel.

Collisions:

• Tom has experience (as a pupil) drafting collision statements of case and advising on apportionment of liability.

Ship sale and purchase:

• Tom has experience (as a pupil) advising on ship sale and purchase agreements, including disputes as to the time and place of delivery.

• Assisting in a London arbitration concerning the validity of a settlement agreement raising issues of waiver and estoppel.
• Assisting with an advice and written submissions on issue estoppel and Henderson v Henderson abuse of process.
• Assisting with an application for security for costs involving the Crabtree principle.
• Assisting with an advice on transferred loss and assignment.
• Tom has experience of contempt proceedings from his time working at an international law firm where he assisted with the successful contempt application in OCM Maritime Nile LLC v Courage Shipping Co [2024] EWHC 1226 (Comm).

• Assisting with a s.44 Arbitration Act 1996 application in O v C [2024] EWHC 2383 (Comm) for an order for the sale of a cargo of naphtha blocked under US Iranian sanctions.  The application raised the question of when the Court will make an order which may require a party to breach foreign sanctions.
• Advising on the construction and effect of Law and Arbitration clauses.
• Assisting with an advice as to whether an ad hoc arbitration agreement had been impliedly formed.

• Assisting with an advice raising issues of state immunity in a shipbuilding context.
• Assisting with an advice on tortious claims for the misdelivery of cargo raising issues as to jurisdiction and applicable law.
• Assisting with seeking disclosure in accordance with a letter of request in support of US proceedings.

• Advising on indemnity claims under CIF sale contracts following late pre-payment and a refusal to load cargo (with John Russell KC).
• Assisting with an advice on the recoverability of carrying charges incurred under an FOB sale contract from shipowners.
• Drafting pleadings and submissions in cargo claims, including for short and damaged delivery of soft commodities.

• Assisting with written submissions on the nature and scope of P&I, war risks, and hull and machinery cover required under a bareboat charter.
• Co-editor of the Lexis PSL article “Marine Insurance – essentials” (assisting Nigel Cooper KC).

• Tom has successfully defended EC 261 claims for flight cancellations and delays, including on the grounds of weather conditions constituting extraordinary circumstances.