Lessons from major shipping casualties: better solutions to claims

23 July 2021

Michelle Taylor
Partner
Sparke Helmore Lawyers

Michelle Taylor
Partner
Sparke Helmore Lawyers
t: 61 7 3016 5016

An accomplished lawyer with more than 25 years' experience as a litigator, Michelle specialises in maritime and transport law. Michelle features as a leading shipping and transport practitioner in Chambers, Legal 500, Doyle’s and Best Lawyers. She is also very active in the maritime and transport industries including being the Vice President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (MLAANZ) and on the Executive of Australian Maritime and Transport Arbitration Commission (AMTAC).

In this Podcast, Partner and Head of Maritime and Transport, Michelle Taylor talks about major shipping casualties and the necessity to adopt an approach to major incidents (and their ensuing claims) that is not purely focused on questions of legality and viewing the management of loss as a matter of pecuniary compensation alone.

The podcast steps through the variety of concerns that may arise when managing a major shipping incident, including commercial, regulatory, human and political, and the need to view the incident as solving a problem rather than just compensation for loss. Michelle highlights her experience during the Rena casualty in New Zealand and the major learnings and observations nearly 10 years on.

To hear this podcast go to Lessons from major shipping casualties: better solutions to claims and be directed to Sparke Helmore's podcast page on our website or listen on Podbean through The Sparke Cast host page.