Shipping Litigation
Our Shipping Litigation team often deals with matters requiring urgent action, such as freezing injunctions and anti-suit applications. Most instructions include a multi-jurisdiction element, and our specialists act quickly by travelling abroad and calling on our established, worldwide network of lawyers, barristers, arbitrators, technical experts and other contacts.
We have extensive experience in all aspects of ‘dry’ shipping and regularly advise on:
Cargo claims
Laytime and demurrage disputes
Hire and off-hire claims
Unsafe port or berth claims
Performance warranties
Bunker disputes
Agency/freight forwarding matters
Commodity disputes
General average
CIF and FOB contracts
Trade finance and documentary credits
Freezing injunctions
Bills of lading and charterparties
P & I and Defence Club cover
International sale of goods
Our Admiralty team advises on the full range of 'wet' shipping law:
Salvage and wreck removal
Collision
Hull and machinery claims
Towage and pilotage
Pollution
Casting away
Actual and constructive total loss (including fire)
Unsafe berth
Personal injury/loss of life
Ship repair claims
