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Shipping & Commodities

London (Bar)

4 Years Ranked

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Provided by Andrew Carruth

UK Bar

Practice Areas

Andrew practises primarily in the areas of shipping, offshore construction, shipbuilding, commodities, energy 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.

Andrew is currently instructed in one of The Lawyer’s top 20 cases of 2023, Tata Consultancy Services Limited v Disclosure and Barring Service.

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 Ever Given [2023] EWHC 697 (Admlty); The Wilforce v The Western Moscow [2022] EWHC 1190 (Admlty); 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 salvage work includes major casualties such as the groundings of ‘EVER GIVEN’ and ‘CSCL JUPITER’ and the fire aboard ‘MAERSK HONAM’.

Career

LLB (KCL), First Class; LLM (UCL), Distinction; BPTC (BPP), Outstanding.

Called 2013, Inner Temple.

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