Alistair is a director in our London office and is one of the founders of the firm.Alistair read Law and French at a London university and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1994. He has 20 years of experience in the field of marine law. He first worked for six years with City of London law firm, Elborne Mitchell, before joining Holman Fenwick Willan and working there for 12 years, becoming a partner in 2002. He left Holman Fenwick Willan in 2010 and co-founded Campbell Johnston Clark together with two other senior partners from Holman Fenwick Willan. Alistair's expertise covers all aspects of marine insurance, collisions, groundings, fire and explosion, salvage, total loss, wreck removal, limitation of liability, pollution, general average, insurance coverage, shipbuilding, charterparty and bill of lading disputes.He has been involved in some of the largest casualty cases over recent years including Mineral Dampier c/s Hanjin Madras, CMA Djakarta, the Hanjin Pennsylvania, the APL Panama, the Ocean Crown and more recently the HANSA BRANDENBURG to name but a few. His role in these cases involved detailed and comprehensive casualty handling acting primarily for owners and their insurers, dealing with everything from the practicalities of the casualties themselves to contractual and legal disputes that arise. Alistair features in Chambers & Partners UK 2014 ‘leading individuals’ section and he continues to receive market praise from clients and fellow practitioners alike, describing him as ‘good to deal with when matters turn contentious’. The Legal 500 also praises Alistair for being ‘knowledgeable’. According to Chambers and Partners (2018 UK edition) he is a "knowledgeable, thorough and technical lawyer who is an aggressive defender of his clients."
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Andrew is a Director in the London office of CJC. Following a career at sea as an officer in the Royal Navy, he trained as a solicitor with an international law firm in London. He has since worked in London, Singapore and Hong Kong and has over 20 years of experience in Admiralty and shipping law. Andrew's practice covers all aspects of Admiralty work. He acts primarily for ship owners, charterers, P&I Clubs and hull and machinery underwriters. His experience includes marine and offshore casualty response and investigation relating to collision, grounding, general average, oil pollution, salvage, fire, piracy, cargo loss, unseaworthiness, unsafe port claims and general marine insurance claims. He has a strong reputation for marine casualty investigation work and handling Admiralty casualty cases globally, including the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Ian is a Director and Lawyer based in CJC’s London Office, having been a founding member of the firm’s Singapore Office in 2014, helping to develop the firm’s presence across Asia. Ian returned to the London Office in 2019. Ian specialises in commercial shipping and maritime disputes, covering the full range of P&I and defence work, marine insurance issues and disputes arising out of the sale/purchase and building of ships. Ian’s practice also encompasses collisions and ship damage claims and advises clients on international trade disputes. On the non-contentious side, Ian is involved in drafting a wide range of shipping contracts, including charterparty terms, COAs and sale agreements. Ian has run several cases through Singapore and London Arbitration and successfully obtained English High Court Judgments, such as the Alhani [2018] EWHC 1495 (Comm), the leading case on the Hague Rules time bar applying to misdelivery claims and Libyan Navigator Ltd v Lamda Maritime Holdings Sp. z. o. O [2014] EWHC 1399 (Comm), the key case regarding the interpleader procedure in the context of liened sub-hires and sub-freights. Ian helped take the Singapore Office from start-up to being ranked in Tier 2 in Legal 500 2019. An example of the write-ups include this from Legal 500 2018: "Campbell Johnston Clark Singapore LLP’s team utilises its ‘acute understanding of the commercial realities for their clients’ to provide ‘thorough, well-reasoned and accurate advice’ and ‘superb service’, making it ‘one of the most reliable firms in the sector’." Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 said: "Ian Short is ‘a first-class lawyer with outstanding legal knowledge and razor-sharp analysis’; he is ‘down to earth, with a firm but realistic approach to disputes’."
Jacqueline is a partner dealing with a wide range of commercial disputes in the dry-shipping, offshore and private equity sectors, whether in court, arbitration or using ADR techniques. She is noted for implementing pragmatic strategies to help clients navigate the dispute resolution process from beginning to end, mainly for Funds, Owners, Charterers and P&I Clubs. She has a particular interest in multi-jurisdictional issues and early dispute management. Jacqueline is described in the market as “Approachable, utterly reliable and to-the-point.”
James is a partner whose core practice is in commercial and maritime matters, involving court and arbitration proceedings as well as mediation, with extensive experience in a broad variety of issues arising from charterparties, bills of lading, COAs, general average, "dry" aspects of casualties, including piracy, shipbuilding, sale and purchase of ships and super yachts, ship repair contracts, shipping insolvency scenarios and marine insurance disputes (including market and P&I coverage issues). James has run cases for clients across the full spectrum of interests in the shipping sector, including owners, charterers, P&I Clubs, hull underwriters, energy companies and banks. His career spans more than 30 years of experience as a litigator with expertise in shipping cases.
Jonathan, a co-founding partner of Campbell Johnston Clark, has wide ranging transactional practice specialising in shipping, banking and general commercial work. Jonathan is well regarded for his practical and commercial approach to lawand has a broad base of international clients, which includes shipowners (from household names to start-up companies), banks, equity funds, brokers, entrepreneurs, ship managers and ship operators, as well as non-shipping clients. Jonathan is described in the market as ‘first class’.