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Name
Richard Stone QC

Professional qualifications and appointments

Called to the Bar (England and Wales) 1952; QC 1968
Wreck Commissioner 1968-1998
Member of the Panel of Lloyd's Arbitrators 1968-1998

Areas of practice

Admiralty, including collision, pilotage and salvage

Significant cases

The 'Po' and the 'Bowditch' [1990] 1 Lloyd's Rep 418 (Sheen J) and [1991] 2 Lloyd's Rep 206 (C.A.)

Wreck Inquiries into the losses of the 'Burtonia', the 'Kurdistan', the 'Marques', the Penlee Lifeboat 'Solomon Brown', the 'Derbyshire'

Education and other experience

1940-1943 Lakefield College, Ontario, Canada.
1943-1946 Rugby School
1948-1951 Trinity Hall, Cambridge - MA

Richard Stone

Email:
richard.stone@stonechambers.com

Post:
Stone Chambers,
4 Field Court,
Gray's Inn,
London WC1R 5EF

T: +44 (0) 20 7440 6900
F: +44 (0) 20 7242 0197
DX: LDE 483

A "Leading Set"

Legal 500 - 'London Bar Overview'

"Although smaller than its competitors …, this set is nonetheless a genuine force. It has some “very successful players in shipping” at all levels who undertake a rich diet of both wet and dry work… There is, moreover, additional expertise in relation to the international and domestic sale of goods and commodities, as well as insurance matters…"

Chambers UK - 'Shipping & Commodities'