Joshua is an associate with specialised experience in shipping, arbitration, insurance, and international trade. He acts for a wide range of clients including shipowners, charterers, offshore contractors, service providers, and insurers, advising on complex and high-value disputes across both the wet and dry sectors.
Joshua’s wet shipping practice includes advising on major casualty incidents, cargo claims, collisions, general average, and salvage matters. On the dry side, he has experience handling charterparty disputes, unpaid hire claims, demurrage issues, and enforcement proceedings across multiple jurisdictions. In addition, he advises offshore contractors and vessel owners on various issues and disputes arising under the main forms of industry contracts, including BIMCO Supplytime, Towcon and Towhire.
Joshua also has a strong background in insurance-related shipping claims, including high-value disputes arising from marine and commercial insurance policies.
Expertise
- Wet shipping
- Dry shipping
- Energy, oil & gas
- Charterparty disputes
- Cargo claims
- Casualty claims
- General average
- Demurrage disputes
- Marine insurance
- Arbitration proceedings
- Commercial litigation
Experience
Dry shipping/offshore energy
- Acted on claims of more than €1.7 million in LMAA arbitration against charterers of an offshore supply vessel for unpaid hire, including subsequent enforcement proceedings in Sweden.
- Advised on a claim in LMAA arbitration against charterers of a Ro-Ro passenger ferry vessel for wrongful termination of an amended Linertime 2015 charterparty, with claims of €5.8 million.
- Acted on a claim against charterers for unpaid demurrage and detention in LMAA arbitration in excess of US$10 million, including enforcement of a lien over cargo and of letters of indemnity for delivery of cargo without production of original bills of lading, and defending misdelivery claims advanced by bills of lading holder.
- Acted for charterers as respondents in LMAA arbitration for rectification of a bareboat charterparty.
- Acting for a shipowner in an off-hire dispute with charterers under an amended Supplytime 2017 and subsequent enforcement action in Italy.
- Acting for an OSV operator in a dispute with contractors under a TMSA and subsequent arbitration under UNCITRAL Rules.
- Acting for a shipowner for unpaid demurrage arising from discharge delays due to alleged cargo contamination during voyage.
- Acting for a shipowner claiming unpaid bunker fuel under a time charter and subsequent LMAA arbitration against charterers.
Wet shipping
- Advised on a Ro-Ro vessel casualty and handling incoming cargo claims arising from over 1,000 bills of lading.
- Acted on quantum claims amounting to US$32 million in the Admiralty Court following a high-value three-ship collision in the Suez Canal.
- Advised on over 1,200 general average claims stemming from a containership fire.
- Advised and acted for cargo owners in a high-value salvage claim through to a hearing and arbitration award.
- Advised and acted for a shipowner following a ship collision, and subsequent assessment of collision liability and quantum damages.
Insurance
- Advised on a container lessee default insurance claim, including a US$26 million dispute against Textainer Group Holdings, heard before the Commercial Court ([2022] EWHC 1995 (Comm)) and subsequently the Court of Appeal ([2024] EWCA Civ 547).
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Career
Joshua qualified as a solicitor in 2021. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2025, he worked at the following firms:
- BDM Law