Shipping Casualty Lawyers
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Our mariners and lawyers are available to help you manage any major incident and can be contacted on our 24/7 emergency hotline.
With a 200-year history, international offices and a team of seven specialist casualty investigators, our emergency response team is ready to attend at a moment’s notice if the unexpected happens.
How we can advise you
When the unexpected happens, our team of specialists is on-hand to manage the on-site situation and mitigate loss, working to protect your commercial interests and reputation.
Our team routinely handles large casualties involving:
- Collisions
- Constructive total losses
- Groundings
- Unsafe port claims
- Fire
- Major cargo losses
- Salvage and wreck removal
- General average
- Pollution
- Piracy
- Personal injury/fatalities
How we can help:
- Attending, managing, investigating and advising in relation to marine casualties in respect of causation, claims, defences, liability, jurisdiction, arrest, limitation of liability, mitigation and quantum
- Full service case management in the Admiralty and Commercial Court, arbitration tribunals and mediation from the initial casualty to a negotiated settlement or judgment/award
- Attending and advising on salvage claims and negotiation/drafting of towage and wreck removal contracts
- Investigation, management and defence of personal injury/fatality claims
- Cruise and passenger vessel casualty specialists
- Preparing clients/their employees for investigations from authorities following a casualty
- Advising on casualty-related STCW and MARPOL issues, piracy, international conventions, dangerous goods and ship management disputes
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How our team will work with you
With offices in London, Piraeus, Singapore and Hong Kong, our emergency response team of seven mariner-lawyers is well placed to deal with matters at any time.
Our 24/7 hotline means you can reach the team whenever and wherever an incident occurs, and early-stage intervention means we can quickly identify the potential legal issues and preserve and capture all of the physical, electronic and witness evidence relevant to those issues.
The team has a reputation for a calm and measured approach in the challenging atmosphere of a post-casualty scenario.
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Our clients
- Ship owners
- P&I clubs
- H&M underwriters
- Salvors
- Charterers
- Ship managers
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Our experience
We have a long tradition of responding to marine casualties globally dating back for more than 200 years, including acting on the losses of the “TITANIC” and more recently “COSTA CONCORDIA”.
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