About me
I’m a partner in Hill Dickinson’s Shipping team, working between our London and Piraeus offices. With more than 30 years’ experience and a background in naval architecture, I specialise in admiralty and insurance work, with a focus on collision and salvage claims.
I advise shipowners, operators, P&I clubs and insurers, from the first response to a casualty through to resolution, whether by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation. My work also extends to charterparty and insurance disputes involving technical issues such as machinery failure, fire and cargo damage.
Having lived and worked in the UK, Greece, Singapore and across the Middle East and Africa, I bring an international perspective that helps me work effectively with clients around the world.
Outside work, I support London Youth Rowing, a charity helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and I remain passionate about rowing and sailing myself.
My experience
- The Demise Charterers of FMG Sydney -v- The Owners of MSC Apollo [2023] EWHC 328 (Admlty). Acted for the owners and insurers of this VLOC in English High Court proceedings relating to a collision with the container ship “MSC APOLLO”, off Tianjin, China, in 2019.
- Regulus Ship Services PTE Ltd -v- Lundin Services BV [2016] EWHC 2674 (Comm). Acted for Lundin petroleum in relation to a dispute under a TOWCON agreement relating to the towage of an FPSO from the Mediterranean to Indonesia. This case required the court to determine the meaning of the term ‘light ballast condition’ for towage purposes.
- Atlasnavios Navegacao LDA -v- The Ship 'Xin Tai Hai' (No 2) [2012] FCA 1497. Acting for the owners and insurers of the bulk carrier, “B.OCEANIA”, in relation to the collision and subsequent sinking of “B.OCEANIA”, which happened in the Malacca Straits. The case involved significant court proceedings in Australia in relation to forum shopping.
- Vicky 1 and Front Ace [2008] EWCA Civ 101. Acting alongside Simon Rainey KC in English Court proceedings relating to collision quantum, especially issues relating to the calculation of loss of use after a collision.
- Archimidis – LOF Salvage Arbitration. Acting on behalf of the contractors in the arbitration proceedings relating to the salvage of the laden container vessel.
- Rena – acted for the owners and insurers of this grounding and total loss of a container ship off Tauranga, NZ, in 2012.