News & Knowledge

Ionna Vitta has joined us (from Penningtons) as a partner and is based in Athens, servicing the firm’s Greek clientele. Paul Haworth is a British Master Mariner with 16 years’ seagoing experience and a solicitor, qualified in 2009,  specialising in Admiralty and crisis response.

Simon Tatham gave a paper at this well attended conference at the end of September on “The salvage of alternatively fuelled vessels” and also accepted the invitation to give  the wrap-up speech on the conference’s final day in Istanbul. He comments: “It was good for the towage and salvage industry to gather once again after […]

by Simon Tatham Regular columnist Simon Tatham examines a recent maritime accident report to highlight the risks of not taking the offered LOF The International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) has been working on what it calls its Salvage Delay Project, an independent study into the increasing tendency for delays in the take up of emergency […]

Simon Tatham is to present BIMCO’s Masterclass on Towage & Salvage in Rotterdam on 28-29 April 2022. The masterclass presented by Simon Tatham will focus on a wide range of ocean towage and salvage agreements provided by BIMCO.

  The detention of vessels in and around the Singapore Straits by the Indonesian Navy in recent months (following an earlier cluster of cases in 2019) has presented challenges to the shipowners involved.  It raises difficult issues in respect to what constitutes “innocent passage” and the tensions between that fundamental right under the law of […]

Big news for the firm was that we recently won the Law Society Award for Small Firm of the Year 2021. This was mainly for our work around helping owners whose ships were attacked and hijacked during the last year and in previous years building on the success we had with the Chennai 6. The […]