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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.

Do not delay salvage contracting

16 May 2022 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…

How SCOPIC is used under LOF

Regular columnist Simon Tatham explains the process, benefits and pitfalls of invoking SCOPIC in salvage Salvage situations develop quickly, calling for rapid decision making by the parties involved. For the opportunist, occasional salvor and a shipowner faced with its first salvage dilemma, they with probably not have experience of Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) salvage let…

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