John Kimbell KC

Practice Areas

John Kimbell KC specialises in shipping, aviation and insurance law. He is the editor of the leading practitioner work, ‘Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice’ (2025) and the co-editor of ‘Marsden on Collisions at Sea’ (2021). In addition to his work in the English High Court, he represents a wide range of clients in commercial arbitration (LMAA, GMAA, ICC, LCIA and DIS). He also acts as a commercial arbitrator in London and Hamburg (LMAA, LCIA, ICC, GMAA). Since 2018, he has sat in the High Court (Chancery, IPEC, LCCC and KBD) as a Deputy High Court Judge and in the Crown Court as a Recorder.

John is fluent in German and accepts instructions in that language. Since 2001, he has been qualified to practice as a lawyer (‘Rechtsanwalt’) in Germany. He uses his knowledge of German law to provide a specialist service to German-speaking commercial clients involved in London court or London arbitration proceedings.