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Simon Tatham

7th February 2020

Simon Tatham is one of the UK’s most experienced Admiralty solicitors, a partner in Tatham & Co and founder of TugAdvise.

Stephen Askins

1st April 2019

Stephen Askins who left the Royal Marines in 1990, joined TugAdvise in April 2015 after twenty five years at Ince & Co during which time he spent ten years in Piraeus.

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…

Simon Tatham

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