Described by her clients as being detail driven and highly responsive to client needs, Dolly acts for a wide variety of shipowners, operators, charterers, P&I Club insurers and commodity trading companies in disputes arising out of charterparties, bills of lading, commodity sale/purchase contracts and bunker supply contracts.

Dolly has extensive experience of international arbitration in various forums including LMAA, ICC and LCIA and litigates frequently in the Commercial Court and Court of Appeal in London. She also has experience of mediation and settlement negotiations.

Having come from a ship classification background prior to her legal career, Dolly has a good understanding of the regulatory framework of the industry and of the technical issues impacting the industry, particularly in relation to oil tankers and LNG vessels.

Those for whom she has conducted full arbitrations say she is "hard working and diligent", "highly organised" and a "strong tactical litigator" with a "focus on and dedication to the needs of the Club and the Members".

Dolly is a Supporting Member of the LMAA and a lecturer for Lloyd's Maritime Academy on laytime and demurrage.

Details of her experience is at:

https://www.preston-turnbull.com/staff/dolly-brown

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