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Michael Howard QC

24th October 2017

Michael Howard QC joined in September 2019 bringing to TugAdvise his enormous experience both as an active Admiralty counsel and as a former Lloyd’s Arbitrator. In addition to salvage and wreck removal he advises on ship sale or construction contracts, charterparties and marine policies. As counsel, he has appeared in the Admiralty Court in disputes ranging from…

LOF – claims by dispossessed salvors

In February 1977 a vessel in ballast, Unique Mariner, ran aground in Indonesian waters not far from Singapore. The master was advised by ship’s agents that a tug would be sourced. A professional salvor’s tug turned up from Singapore and the master mistakenly thinking that it was the tug procured by the agents, signed Lloyd’s…

Force majeure: headache of today

I am into week six of lockdown. The new office is closed and all partners and staff working, more or less happily, from home. The roses are out, the potatoes are in, the lettuce are pushing on but there is absolutely no sign of the parsley (sown late because more efficient people ordered up the…

Michael Howard QC

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