Tom Whitehead

Introduction

Tom Whitehead specialises in all areas of shipping and commercial law including the carriage and sale of goods, international trade, arbitration, jurisdiction and the conflict of laws. He regularly appears in the Admiralty and Commercial Courts and in maritime arbitrations concerning the full range of wet and dry shipping claims.

The bulk of Tom's practice concerns dry shipping work (laytime and demurrage, hire claims, speed and performance disputes, Oil Major approval clauses, ship sale and purchase). He also has considerable experience of jurisdiction disputes and claims to anti suit injunctions (both seeking and resisting such orders).

Tom is increasingly instructed in insurance litigation and a growing number of shareholder agreement disputes, including LCIA arbitration.

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Recommendations

Tom Whitehead is recommended in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading junior for Shipping law, in 2010 he was singled out as a 'star in the making'.

Career

Called 2002; Inner Temple (Major Scholar, Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award).

Lecturer in Land Law and Trusts Law, Queen Mary College, University of London (2002).

Member, LCLCBA and Commercial Bar Association.

Education

Bolton School; Worcester College Oxford, BA Jurisprudence (1st Class) 2000 (Henry SQ Henriques prize); BCL 2001

Publications

Co-author, United Kingdom and British Maritime Law Association's Joint Response to the IMO Questionnaire on the Salvage Convention 1989 (2004)