Mr. Smith KC has been involved in shipping and arbitration work throughout his professional career of over 35 years. He has been involved in many leading shipping and arbitration cases including representing GAFTA in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom om the seminal case of Haliburton v Chubb, the salvors in The “Tilawa” and owners in The “MSC Flaminia”.
Mr. Smith KC’s shipping practice involves both wet and dry shipping. He has extensive experience of salvage and collision cases as well as charterparty and bill of lading disputes and ship construction disputes.
Mr. Smith KC has been accepting appointments as arbitrator for over 25 years and has written awards as sole arbitrator, party appointed arbitrator and as chair. His appointments range from yacht collision cases to charterparty disputes and ship sale disputes, including claims arising under yacht and ship sale and purchase contracts and claims under charterparty guarantees.
Mr. Smith KC is one of the editors of Scrutton on Charterparties and Bills of Lading”a claim for damages for repudiatory breach of a long term bareboat charterparty, a claim for breachof a MYBA superyacht charterparty.