Admiralty Solicitors Group

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The firm is a member of the Admiralty Solicitors Group. The Group comprises about 20 firms of solicitors specialising in admiralty and general maritime work. The Group was formed in 1972 to review and improve practice procedures, to provide a better service to clients, and to uphold the high standard of the City of London's admiralty law tradition. The Group is consulted by the Government in respect of proposed legislative change, promotes procedural regulatory review, and is represented on the Lloyd's Form Working Party, the Admiralty Court Committee, and on various other industry bodies. The Admiralty Solicitors Group website can be found at www.admiraltysolicitorsgroup.com

Standard Wordings

Cases of salvage, collision, cargo claims against ship, and other admiralty incidents usually give rise to demands for security and to a threat of arrest. The interests of clients are best served in such cases by the parties and their respective legal advisers being able to utilise standard security and jurisdiction wordings. The ASG member firms have agreed to recommend their clients to utilise these standard wordings. The texts, which have been updated and improved, have stood the test of time and will be familiar to a large number of clients and guarantors worldwide. It is hoped that the publication of the wordings will encourage their greater use, either in their unamended form, or as a framework for adaptation, so that security and jurisdiction issues can be resolved both more quickly and more economically.

The wordings are kept under constant review. Below are the current wordings. The wording for ASG 6 is being reconsidered at present in the light of the apparent right under the Civil Procedure Rules (introduced in 1999) to rearrest - see Part 49 section 2A - 6.7(3)(b).

Note on conventions used in the ASG standard wordings

• Places where information must be added to or consideration given to deleting in language the ASG Standard Wordings are shown by the use of square brackets. e.g. ["Name of vessel"]. Words within round brackets are part of the standard text.
• Ship names shown simply as ("AAA" and "BBB" etc), are shown in italics. e.g. ["AAA"]
• Indications of the nature of the information to be inserted within square brackets (where this is not clearly apparent from the context) are shown in bold type. e.g. [figures and words]

Contents

ASG 1	Collision Undertaking
ASG 2	Collision Jurisdiction Agreement
ASG 3	Submission to Arbitration - Salvage Services
ASG 4	Common Law Salvage Undertaking
ASG 5	LOF Clause 13 Indemnity
ASG 6	Submission to Arbitration - Collision
ASG 7	Submission to Arbitration - Salvage Services - Documents Only
ASG 8	Submission to Arbitration - Collision - Documents Only
ASG 9	Cargo Undertaking
ASG 10	Surveyors Indemnity
ASG 11	Fire Expert Access Agreements

Appendix A

The following documents produced by the International Salvage Union, and which are already widely used, are recommended by ASG Members to their clients. ISU 1 (Salvage) ISU 2 (Salvage) ISU 4 (Article 14 Special Compensation) ISU 5 (SCOPIC Remuneration 2001)

Appendix B

Corporation of Lloyd's wordings See their web site for the text of: Lloyd's Open Form 2000 Lloyd's Standard Salvage and Arbitration Clauses Procedural Rules Salvage security guarantee forms Lloyd's Fixed Cost Arbitration Procedure (FCAP) SCOPIC Clause 2007 plus Appendices A - C Code of Practice between International Salvage Union and International Group of P&I Clubs Code of Practice between International Group of P&I Clubs and London Property Underwriters

Casualty Reports

Added: 10 August 2010
Vessel: MSC CHITRA
When: 2010 August
Where: Mumbai Port
Type: Collision
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Added: 18 July 2010
Vessel: CHEMTRANS ALSTER
When: 2010 June
Where: NE of port of Tuxpan, Mexico
Type: Grounding
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Emergency Contact Numbers

Christopher J. Dunn:
+44 (0)7595 117 380
David A. Perry:
+44 (0)7595 117 381
Mark A. Lloyd:
+44 (0)7595 117 382
Andrew D. Purssell:
+44 (0)7595 117 383