Richard is a leading lawyer in our Casualty and Admiralty team and has been involved in most of the firm’s recent casualty work, particularly collisions, groundings, explosions and salvage, and subsequent contractual disputes. As well as acting for salvors, owners and underwriters, he also acts for various owners and clubs in charterparty disputes, focusing on those of a technical nature such as unsafe port disputes, P&I claims and GA disputes. His work has included a number of claims involving complex containership casualties, logistics, bunker disputes, speed and performance issues, and yachts. He has undertaken reviews of various contracts relating to provision of port services, STS and emergency towage services, wreck removal, Towhire and Towcon, Supplytime and decommissioning. He has also acted in aviation disputes, providing regulation advice on incident management. He is the legal advisor to the International Salvage Union (ISU).