Andrew Carruth
About
Provided by Andrew Carruth
Practice Areas
Andrew practises primarily in the areas of shipping, commodities, energy, shipbuilding, offshore construction and marine insurance. His shipping work encompasses all areas of both wet and dry shipping including disputes under charterparties and bills of lading, collisions, salvage claims, limitation claims and general average.
The majority of Andrew’s shipping cases are in arbitration and he has experience of the full range of arbitral rules including LCIA, LMAA, LOF, ICC, UNCITRAL, SIAC, HKIAC, GAFTA and FOSFA. He also appears regularly in the Commercial Court and the Admiralty Court.
Reported shipping cases include The Baltic Strait [2018] EWHC 629 (Comm); The Muammer Yagci [2018] EWHC 3873 (Comm); The Nordlake v The SeaEagle [2015] EWHC 3605 (Admlty); and Deleclass Shipping Co Ltd v Ingosstrakh Insurance Co Ltd [2018] EWHC 1149 (Comm).
Andrew’s recent work includes major casualties such as the fire aboard ‘MAERSK HONAM’ and the groundings of ‘CSCL JUPITER’ and ‘EVER GIVEN’.
Career
LLB (KCL), First Class; LLM (UCL), Distinction; BPTC (BPP), Outstanding.
Called 2013, Inner Temple.
Chambers Review
Global
Andrew Carruth
Andrew Carruth impresses with his wet and dry shipping practice. He has the skills to act on high-profile shipping cases and is frequently instructed as sole counsel on matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Andrew offers client-friendly, pragmatic advice with a commercial focus."
"He is approachable and very happy to roll his sleeves up and get amongst the detail when he needs to."
"Andrew brings a maturity beyond his call to the matters that he works on."
"Andrew offers client-friendly, pragmatic advice with a commercial focus."
"He is approachable and very happy to roll his sleeves up and get amongst the detail when he needs to."
"Andrew brings a maturity beyond his call to the matters that he works on."