The full programme along with the biographies of all speakers and chairs
19 th International Colloquium Commercial Insurance Law Contemporary and Emerging Trends
September 11 th & 12 th 2024
Our 19th Annual Colloquium is dedicated to the memory of Professor Malcolm Clarke. A leading light of insurance law, Malcolm was a great academic and a person of enormous warmth and character. He was enormously supportive of friends and other academics alike, and was a great friend to us at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law.
Schedule - Day One
09:00
WELCOME Professor Barış Soyer, Director, IISTL, Swansea University
09:15
SESSION 1: MARINE INSURANCE – CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Chair: Paul Dean, Global Head of Shipping, HFW
Paper: Direct Action Prospects against P & I Clubs Neil Henderson, Senior Executive, Gard, London
Paper: Red Sea Attacks: Highlighting the Blurred Lines of War (Risks) Michael Biltoo, Partner, Kennedys, London
10:30
TEA/COFFEE
11:00
SESSION 2: TECH AND INSURANCE – THE NEW WAVE
Chair: Professor James Devenney, Head of Law, University of Reading
Paper: The Insurtech Irritation: A Continental View on Regulatory, Contractual and Distribution Issues Professor Oliver Brand, University of Mannheim Paper: Decentralised Insurance Professor George Leloudas and Ms Angela Nicholas, IISTL, Swansea University
12:15
LUNCH
Schedule - Day One
13:15
SESSION 3: COMMERCIAL INSURANCE LAW – SPECIALIST COVERS
Chair: Professor Francis Rose, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Paper: UK Directors and Officers Liability Insurance Policies – Observations on 21st Century Developments Richard Eveleigh, Insurance Product Creation Expert, and Chair of the British Insurance Law Association
Paper: Cyber Insurance and IT Service Providers’ Liability Celso De Azevedo, Enterprise Chambers
Paper: SME Insurance – A Different Beast? Professor Baris Soyer and Dr Jia Wang, IISTL, Swansea University
15:00
TEA/COFFEE
15:30
SESSION 4: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chair: Professor Simon Baughen, IISTL, Swansea University
Paper: Choice of Law Clauses - Enforceable in the USA? Professor Michael Sturley, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Chinese Approach to Construction Associate Professor Rui Zheng (Shanghai Maritime University) and Associate Professor Jinlei Zhang (Dalian Maritime University
17:00
CLOSE
19:30
COLLOQUIUM DINNER AT NORTON HOUSE
Schedule - Day Two
09:15
SESSION 5: INSURANCE LAW (1) – CONTEMPORARY DOCTRINAL ISSUES Chair: Jonathan Webb, Partner, Floyd Zadkovich Paper: Pre-Contractual Duty of Fair Presentation under the Insurance Act 2015 - Clear Peter Macdonald-Eggers KC, 7 King’s Bench Walk Paper: Construction of Warranties in (Marine) Policies in the Post-Insurance Act Landscape Richard Sarll, Barrister, 7 King’s Bench Walk
Paper: Fraud in Insurance - The Legal Response Nichola Warrender KC, Quadrant Chambers
11:00
TEA/COFFEE
11:30
SESSION 6: INSURANCE LAW (2) – THE AFTERMATH Chair: Professor D Rhidian Thomas, IISTL, Swansea University
Paper: Assignment v. Subrogation Professor Andrew Tettenborn, IISTL, Swansea University
Paper: When the Insurer’s Payment Writes off the Wrongdoer’s Liability to the Assured Professor Ozlem Gurses, King’s College, London
Paper: Anti-assignment Clauses Professor Simon Baughen, IISTL, Swansea University
13:15
LUNCH
14:15
CLOSE
Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Andrew Tettenborn Professor of Commercial Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Andrew Tettenborn has been Professor of Commercial Law at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law since 2010, having previously taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Cambridge and Exeter and held numerous visiting positions elsewhere. He specialises in contract,
shipping and commercial subjects. Published in many top-class journals, he is also on the editorial board of Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of International Maritime Law . Apart from this, he is also the joint author of Tettenborn and Rose on Admiralty Claims and of Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies ; the General Editor of Clerk & Lindsell on Torts ; and the joint editor, with John Kimbell KC, of Marsden’s Collisions at Sea .
Angela Nicholas Tutor in Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Angie initially joined the Shipping & Trade Team as a Research Officer on the HEFCW funded Cyber Risk Insurance: Building Resilience in Wales project, before becoming a Tutor in 2023. Prior to this, Angie worked in the consumer and commercial insurance industry, training staff on insurance regulation.
Angie holds an LLB, LLM and LPC from Swansea University, and is currently pursuing a PhD in the use of Blockchain within shipping and insurance. She has recently co-published a paper in the Edinburgh Law Review on cyber risk insurance as a risk mitigation tool for SMEs. Angie teaches on several of the shipping and trade modules.
Professor Barış SOYER Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Professor Soyer directs the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University and is a member of the British Maritime Law Association and British Insurance Law Association. He is the author of Warranties in Marine Insurance (2001), Marine Insurance Fraud (2014),
and many articles published in journals such as Cambridge Law Journal , Law Quarterly Review , Edinburgh Law Review , Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly , the Journal of Business Law , the Torts Law Journal and the Journal of Contract Law . Warranties in Marine Insurance won the Cavendish Book Prize 2001 and was awarded the British Insurance Law Association Charitable Trust Book Prize in 2002 for its contribution to insurance literature. Marine Insurance Fraud also won the latter prize in 2015. He has also edited large numbers of collections of essays on commercial, maritime and insurance law. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of International Maritime Law, Shipping and Trade Law and editorial committee of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook). Professor Soyer currently teaches Charterparties: Law and Practice and Marine Insurance on the LLM Programme at Swansea.
Celso De Azevedo Barrister Enterprise Chambers
Celso is a commercial barrister with particular expertise in emerging technology disputes relating to cryptoassets recovery, cyber risks, information technology, insurance, breach response and IT projects’ contractual disputes.
Celso is also recognised as a leading re/insurance barrister, having previously worked for over 20 years as a re/insurance and commercial litigation solicitor and partner in UK and US law firms in the City of London, where he gained extensive experience in complex multi-jurisdictional arbitrations and court proceedings worldwide. He is the 2023 BILA prize-winner of the leading practitioner textbook ‘Cyber Risks Insurance, 2nd Ed, Sweet & Maxwell’. Celso is qualified as a New York Attorney, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Certified Crypto Researcher and Investigator (Crystal Intelligence).
Francis Rose Senior Research Fellow University of Oxford
Francis Rose was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and holds doctorates from the universities of London, Cambridge and Oxford. He has taught at Liverpool, Cardiff, UCL and Cambridge, and has held chairs at the universities of Buckingham, Bristol (where he was also director of the Norton Rose Centre of Commercial Law) and Southampton, where he continues as a visiting professor.
He has also held additional positions at inter alia Hong Kong, Natal, the UN/IMO International Maritime Law Institute at Malta, Auckland, Tulane, Queensland and Oxford (including as senior law tutor at Regent’s Park College and the Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellow in Commercial Law at Magdalen, and now as Senior Research Fellow at the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College). He has been an active member of the Society of Legal Scholars (in particular as its original Subjects Sections Secretary and as convener of its Restitution Section) and of the British Maritime Law Association. He edits Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, as well as Blackstone’s Statutes on Commercial and Consumer Law and Blackstone’s Statutes on Contract, Tort and Restitution, and was the founding editor of the Company, Financial and Insolvency Law Review (now the Journal of Corporate Law Studies) and the Restitution Law Review. His publications have ranged widely over common law (contract, tort and unjust enrichment), commercial and consumer law, and shipping law, which is his current main focus of research. Books in which he is currently involved include: General Average: Law and Practice, 3rd ed (2018); Marine Insurance: Law and Practice, 2nd ed (2012); Kennedy and Rose: The Law of Salvage, 10th ed (2021); Benjamin’s Sale of Goods, 12th ed (ed Bridge) (2023) (Overseas Sales); Carver on Bills of Lading, 5th ed (with FMB Reynolds); and The Law of Admiralty Claims (with AM Tettenborn), 2nd ed (2024).
George Leloudas Professor of Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Dr George Leloudas is a Professor at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) of Swansea University, UK.
He graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds LLM degrees in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol and in Air and Space Law from the Institute of Air and Space Law of McGill University. He also completed his PhD in air law, emphasising liability and insurance, at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, in 2009. Before joining the IISTL in 2011, George worked as a solicitor at Gates and Partners in London for several years. During that time, he advised on aerospace liability and airlines’ regulatory matters. He was also an assistant to the legal counsel of the International Union of Aviation Insurers (IUAI), providing support for replacing the Rome Convention on Surface Damage. George’s principal research interest is the carriage of passengers and goods by air, but his (research and teaching) interests extend to multimodal transport, insurance law, the regulation of autonomous transport systems, artificial intelligence and cyber risks in the transport sector and arbitration law. He has also received grants for regulating autonomous transport systems and the insurance management of cyber risks. He has published two monographs, the first on Risk and Liability in Air Law (Informa) and the second on Air Cargo Insurance (Informa) with Professor Malcolm Clarke of Cambridge University, and a long list of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is also the General Editor of the preeminent air law publication Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law (LexisNexis). His new book on the Montreal Convention 1999 (Elgar Publishing), with Professor Paul Dempsey, Dr Laurent Chassot, and 34 internationally revered experts, was published at the end of 2023 and presents a comprehensive, article-by-article analysis of the Montreal Convention 1999. George is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and Vice Chair of the RAeS Air Law Group Committee. He is also an editor of McGill University’s Annals of Air and Space Law and an instructor at the Training Institute of IATA, where he regularly teaches international air law, aviation insurance law, and air cargo liability. For more information on his CV, please refer to: swansea.ac.uk/staff/g.leloudas
James Devenney Head of Law University of Reading
Professor James Devenney is Dean of Law and Professor of Transnational Commercial Law at the University of Reading, UK. He is also a Visiting Professor at Dalian Maritime University and Full Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. He was previous the prestigious McCann FitzGerald Chair of International Law and Business at University College Dublin, Ireland. He was previously Head of Exeter Law School,
Exeter University, UK, Deputy Head of Durham Law School and Director of the Durham University Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law. He has also held posts at Cardiff Law School and the Bristol Law School, and in recent years he has spent time at Adelaide Law School, the City University of Hong Kong and the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society at Cardiff University. He has authored many books and papers, with his work being cited by the High Court of Singapore (see Chwee Kin Keong v. Digilandmall.com [2004] SGHC 71), the High Court of England and Wales (see Parabola Investments Ltd v. Browallia Cal Ltd [2009] EWHC 901 (Comm) at [130]) and the English Law Commission (see Law Commission of England and Wales: Ninth Programme of Reform (Law Com No 293), para 4.18). He has provided assistance to the Law Commission on Consumer Law, misrepresentation and unfair commercial practices; and more recently he was invited to discuss the proposal for the codification of Australian Contract Law with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, and to assist on another harmonisation project with the Singapore Ministry of Law.
Jia Wang Lecturer in Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University
Dr Jia Wang joined Swansea University in 2023. She obtained an LLB Maritime Law degree from Dalian Maritime University, after which she worked as a judge in a local court in China for two years. Jia also holds two LLM Maritime Law degrees from Dalian Maritime University and the University of Nottingham before she completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2023.
Before joining Swansea University, Jia worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham between 2021 to 2023 to teach English Contract Law and Public Law.
Her research interests lie in socio-legal and comparative legal studies, marine insurance law with a particular focus on the protection of SMEs in insurance business, legal transplantation and legal globalisation. Her teaching expertise lies in marine insurance law, international trade law, and carriage of goods by sea.
Jia is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars and a peer reviewer for the Global Journal of Comparative Law.
Jinlei Zhang Dean of College of International Collaboration Dalian Maritime University, China Dr Jinlei Zhang graduated from Dalian Maritime University (DMU) with LLB in Maritime Law and was awarded LLM and PhD from Swansea University of the UK.
Dr Jinlei Zhang is the Dean of College of International Collaboration at Dalian Maritime University (DMU). She was appointed as a lecturer at
Law School of DMU in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. She is involved in the teaching of the following modules in DMU undergraduate and postgraduate programmes: Maritime Law, Marine Insurance Law, International Maritime Private Law and Legal English. Her principal research interest is in the field of insurance, particularly marine insurance, but her interests extend broadly throughout maritime law. She published many articles in both domestic and international journals and presided over and participated in over 10 research projects, supported by the National Social Science Fund of China, Social Science Fund of Liaoning Province and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and etc.
Jonathan Webb Partner Floyd Zadkovich
Jonathan brings 35 years’ experience as a litigator having learnt the ropes of shipping law in Durban before joining a major London law firm where he served as a partner for 23 years. Jonathan specializes in commercial dispute resolution, handling both arbitration and High Court cases involving shipping, commodities, insurance, mining, and energy. His expertise spans disputes arising from, inter alia, charterparties, bills of
lading, ship sale MOAs, financing contracts, shipbuilding contracts, hull insurance policies, bunker supply contracts, ship management and crewing agreements. Jonathan also has a special interest in mediation as part of the dispute resolution process. Jonathan holds dual qualification as a Solicitor (England & Wales) and a South African Attorney and maintains an extensive network of international contacts in a number of other jurisdictions. He has published various articles and spoken extensively at international conferences and on webinar panels, as well as lecturing at several leading Universities. Jonathan sits on the Boards of various professional and industry bodies including (i) the London Shipping Law Centre and (ii) the British Maritime Law Association while he is also (iii) a supporting member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association and (iv) a member of the Anchorites.
Jonathan works in English, and also has a working knowledge of Afrikaans / Dutch.
Michael Biltoo Partner Kennedys Law
Michael is a maritime solicitor based in London. Michael originally studied at Swansea Law School and the IISTL. Formerly with niche shipping law firm Waltons & Morse, he joined Kennedys as part of their merger in 2016 and subsequently joined the partnership there. Michael is a specialist in the marine and shipping sector, and principally represents owners, charterers, freight forwarders and cargo insurers in a variety of shipping and transport related matters.
His practice is primarily focused on dispute resolution in dry shipping matters, particularly charterparty disputes in which he has represented both owners and charterers. Michael also has significant experience with carriage of goods by sea disputes, piracy related matters and insurance coverage disputes. He has taken an interest in the development of autonomous sailing and the growing cyber risk in the marine market.
Full details available at: kennedyslaw.com/our-people/profiles/london/michael-biltoo
Michael Sturley Professor University of Texas at Austin
Michael Sturley holds the Fannie Coplin Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School, where he teaches inter alia maritime law and commercial law courses and co-directs the Supreme Court Clinic. He received his undergraduate education at Yale and has law degrees from Yale and Oxford. Prof. Sturley is a Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International (where he served as the Rapporteur for the
International Sub-Committee on Issues of Transport Law); a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States (where he is active on several committees); and a life member of the American Law Institute. He was the Senior Advisor on the U.S. Delegation to Working Group III (Transport Law) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and a member of the UNCITRAL Experts’ Group on Transport Law. In 2008, American Maritime Cases dedi- cated its Seventeenth Five-Year Digest to him. Prof. Sturley has written extensively on maritime subjects, particularly on the carriage of goods by sea. He has lectured on maritime subjects at law schools and conferences in the United States and around the world. He has also been consulted in maritime cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, in many of the lower federal courts, and in state and foreign courts. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas Law School, Prof. Sturley was associated with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He had previously served as a law clerk to Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., at the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Amalya L. Kearse, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in New York).
Neil Henderson Industry Liaison Gard
Neil is a member of the Industry Liaison team at Gard, with a particular focus and interest in renewable energy generation and the sustainability of shipping. Prior to joining Gard, Neil was a commercial barrister with 17 years’ experience in international litigation at London-based chambers, 4 Pump Court and 36 Stone, with expertise in maritime law (dry and wet), shipbuilding and international trade. Before qualifying as a barrister, he
worked as an investment banker at JPMorgan specialising in early-stage technology companies. Neil completed an executive MBA at Surrey Business School, which included a dissertation on attitudes to sustainability in the containerized transportation sector.
Nichola Warrender KC Barrister Quadrant Chambers
Nichola is an experienced barrister who enjoys a broad commercial litigation and arbitration practice with particular emphasis on shipping, carriage of goods, commodities, shipbuilding, energy and construction, as well as related insurance and finance disputes.
Much of her insurance work concerns hull and machinery cover or additional war risk cover but she also deals with other types of marine insurance such as P&I, cargo, general average, professional indemnity and other non-marine insurance. She has advised and appeared as an advocate in insurance policy disputes where allegations of misrepresentation, non-disclosure, breach of warranty and fraud/wilful misconduct have been made.
“ Nichola is highly intelligent, clear in her advice and always understands the needs of the case and the client. ” (Chambers and Partners UK, 2024)
Oliver Brand Chair of Private Law, Insurance Law, Business Law,
and Comparative Law Universitat Männheim
Prof. Dr. Oliver Brand, LL.M. (Cambridge) studied Law at the Universities of Münster and Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Political Science at the University of Münster. He obtained his doctorate in international law of interest and usury at the University of Münster, where he also conducted
research for his professorial thesis on compulsory licensing. Currently, he holds the Chair of Private Law, Insurance Law, Business Law and Comparative Law at the University of Mannheim and is the director of the Mannheim Institute of Insurance Sciences.
Özlem Gurses Professor King’s College London
Özlem Gürses is a professor of law at King’s College London. She specialises in insurance and reinsurance law. She is the author of numerous articles and books written in these areas. Her publications include Insurability of Emerging Risks: Law, Theory and Practice (co-edited with Professor Baris Soyer, Hart Publishing, fortcoming 2025), Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law , (Edward Elgar, 2024 ed), Marine
Insurance Law , (Routledge, 3rd ed, 2023), The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019), Reinsuring Clauses , (Informa 2010). Özlem is also editing Vol 4 (Marine Insurance Law) of the Edward Elgar Encyclopaedia on Maritime and Oceans Law . Özlem sits in the Presidential Council of International Insurance Law Association/Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), and she chairs the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA. She is also a Committee member of the British Insurance Law Association and presents BILA’s Annual Lecture, chairs the BILA Law Review sub-committee and organises BILA events with the other members of the programme sub-committee.
Paul Dean Partner and Global Head of Shipping HFW
Paul is Global Head of Shipping at HFW managing 200 specialist shipping lawyers across a worldwide network of 21 offices. Paul specialises in offshore and marine, focusing mainly on charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, rig disputes, collisions, fire and explosion, salvage, general average, groundings, total loss, towage, seismic and limitation.
He regularly speaks at and chairs offshore vessel conferences and has been teaching on the BIMCO panel for their “Using SUPPLYTIME” course for over 10 years, the review committee for the SUPPLYTIME 2005 revision and on the drafting committee for BIMCO’s new standard form Offshore Dismantling Services Agreement DISMANTLECON. Experience gained working for an International Group P&I club specialising in offshore vessels, enables Paul to combine practical understanding with the legal role. Paul is identified in the Legal Directories as one of the leading individuals in his fields, described by clients as a “tenacious litigator with vast experience in shipping and travel disputes” (Legal500 2022). Paul is recognised by Lloyd’s List as one of the 100 most influential people in the maritime industry and one of the market’s Top 10 lawyers in 2019 and 2020. Paul has also contributed to the two most recent editions of “ The Law Of Tug and Tow and Offshore Contracts ” by Simon Rainey Q.C. – “... Paul Dean of HFW, one of the leading and busiest practitioners in the field of offshore contracts and a veritable guru on the topic of the BIMCO forms, particularly “Supplytime”, who as before very kindly gave me the benefit of his great experience and practical insights and with whom once again I have had the great good fortune to work ”.
Paul is qualified in England and Wales and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL).
Peter MacDonald Eggers KC Barrister 7 King’s Bench Walk
Peter MacDonald Eggers KC is a barrister at 7 King’s Bench Walk, London specialising in all aspects of commercial law, especially insurance and re- insurance. Peter acts as an arbitrator and has been a Deputy Judge of the High Court since 2017. Peter has appeared in leading insurance/reinsur- ance cases. Peter teaches at UCL and is a contributing editor of Chitty on Contracts , co-author of Good Faith and Insurance Contracts and Carver
on Charterparties , and the author of Deceit: The Lie of the Law and The Vitiation of Contractual Consent . Peter is a member of the British Insurance Law Association Committee and is the Immediate Past Chair of BILA.
Rhidian Thomas Professor Emeritus of Maritime Law Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Professor Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Maritime Law and Founder Director of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University, Wales, UK. He previously held academic positions at universities in the UK, and visiting positions at universities in Europe,
Scandinavia, Far East and North America. He held the Francqui Chair at the University of Leuven in 2010/2011 and the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Gothenburg.
Professor Thomas is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Maritime Law, and a member of the editorial boards of Shipping & Trade Law and International Comparative Maritime Law. Also a member of the Comite Maritime International and the International Standing Committee on Marine Insurance, the British Maritime Law Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Honorary Member of the Croatian Maritime Law Association. His principal teaching and research interests are in the fields of maritime and shipping law, marine insurance law, international trade law and commercial dispute resolution. He has written, edited and contributed to many books and published widely in academic and professional journals.
He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, and also acts as an expert witness and consultant.
Richard Eveleigh Insurance Product Creation Expert AIG
Richard Eveleigh (Solicitor; LLB Law with French, Birmingham and Limoges) spent fourteen years in private practice at Lovell White Durrant, Martineau Johnson and Berrymans Lace Mawer. From 1989 to 1996, he specialised in corporate insolvency and in bank lending and security, then specialised in insurance from 1996. He went in-house at Chubb Insurance in March 2001 and spent fifteen years there, for most of the time as European
general counsel and product development manager in the financial lines division. In 2017 he joined insurers AIG as UK innovation leader in the financial lines division, where he continued to create new products and advise in bespoke insurance transactions and programmes.
Richard has been a committee member of the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) since 2018 and has been Chair of BILA for the 2022/23 and 2023/24 years.
At Chubb and AIG, Richard created all manner of financial lines insurance products, in each case working with leading expert underwriters in the field: directors and officers liability, public offering liability, employment practices liability, pension scheme liability, sole trader management liability, seconded expert team liability, warranty and indemnity liability, competition call-in, professional liability (miscellaneous, surveyors, architects, engineers, design and construct, accountants, solicitors, media, financial advisers), financial institutions liability (banks, funds, hedge funds, property funds, private equity, investment advisers, insurers), charity insurance, crime, bankers blanket bond, kidnap/crisis, cyber and data security, multinational programmes. He is also experienced in transposing products into jurisdictions around Europe.
In his presentation at the colloquium and his paper afterwards, Richard speaks and writes only on his own behalf, not on behalf of any organisation or other person.
Richard Sarll Barrister 7 King’s Bench Walk, London
Richard Sarll was called to the Bar in 2005 and specialises in disputes relating to commercial and admiralty law. He is particularly well-known for his work in shipping, commodities, insurance and reinsurance, energy, and shipbuilding disputes.
Richard is ranked as a leading junior in the fields of Shipping, Commodities, and Insurance by Legal 500, who place him in their Tier 1 category of juniors for both Shipping and Commodities.
He was named Shipping, Commodities, and Aviation Junior of the Year 2022 at the Legal 500 Bar Awards. More recently, Legal 500 have shortlisted him for the title of Junior of the Year at the 2024 Bar Awards. Chambers & Partners have shortlisted him for the title of Shipping Junior of the Year at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2024. In January 2024, Richard became an External Member of the Institute of Maritime Law, Southampton University. Richard is a member of the Admiralty Court Users’ Committee. He is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Association of Average Adjusters upon matters relating to General Average. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Admiralty Bar Group, which he co-founded in 2017.
He is a co-author of “ Carver on Charterparties ”, now in its 3rd Edition. He is also a co-editor of “ Lowndes & Rudolf, General Average and the York-Antwerp Rules ”, 15th Edition.
At the outset of his practice, Richard undertook professional training alongside his counterparts in indus- try, taking evening classes in shipbroking and chartering, and in average adjusting (i.e. loss adjusting under policies of marine insurance and general average). Richard holds an Advanced Diploma of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers with a concentration in the chartering of bulk carriers. He is also an Associate Member of the Association of Average Adjusters, having passed the requisite examinations in marine insurance law and practice with distinction.
He lays claim to an impressive tally of 21 reported decisions, of which he argued ten on his own, the rest with leading counsel. These include The Star Antares , The Longchamp , and The Brillante Virtuoso .
Rui Zheng Associate Professor School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University, China
Dr Rui Zheng received his PhD from Swansea University, UK. He is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Maritime Law at the School of Law, Shanghai Maritime University, China. He is also the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, Shanghai Maritime University. His teaching and research focus mainly on contract law, maritime law, insurance law and arbitration law in both China and the UK. He is Deputy Secretary General and a standing member of the China Maritime Law Association, a member of the China Association of Insurance Law, Deputy Director of the Insurance and Law Committee of the China Shipowners’ Association and a mediator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission. He is the author of four monographs and has published nearly 20 articles and nearly 120 case commentaries on Chinese and foreign maritime law.
Simon Baughen Professor Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in the Department of Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University in September 2013. He had previously been a Reader at the University of Bristol Law School where he had worked since joining academia in 1989.
Simon Baughen studied law at Oxford and practised in maritime law from 1979 to 1988.
His research interests lie mainly in the field of shipping law in which he has written extensively over the last thirty years. He is the author of ‘Shipping Law’, now in its eighth edition, and took over authorship of ‘Summerskill on Laytime’ in 2013 for its fifth edition which is now in its seventh edition. He also researches in the environmental and human rights law implications of the activities of multinational corporations in the developing world. He has produced two books on this topic. ‘International Trade and the Protection of the Environment’ in 2007 and ‘Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs. Closing the Governance Gap?’ in 2015.
Simon is a member of the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) at Swansea University.
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