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
Joshua advises on dry shipping and offshore energy disputes, including charterparty claims, demurrage, off-hire, bunker fuel, and enforcement, representing owners, charterers, and contractors in LMAA and UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings.
Experience
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.
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.
Acted for a shipowner in an off-hire dispute with charterers under an amended Supplytime 2017 and subsequent enforcement action in Italy.
Acted for an OSV operator in a dispute with contractors under a TMSA and subsequent arbitration under UNCITRAL Rules.
Acted for a shipowner claiming unpaid bunker fuel under a time charter and subsequent LMAA arbitration against charterers.
Joshua advises on wet shipping matters, including cargo claims, casualty disputes, general average, salvage, and high-value collisions, acting for shipowners, cargo owners, and other stakeholders in Admiralty Court proceedings and arbitration.
Experience
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.
Joshua advises shipowners, charterers, offshore contractors, and insurers on complex and high-value disputes in the wet and dry sectors, including major casualty incidents, cargo claims, collisions, general average, salvage matters, charterparty disputes, unpaid hire claims, demurrage issues, and enforcement proceedings.
Experience
Advised and acted for a shipowner following a ship collision, and subsequent assessment of collision liability and quantum damages.
Acted for a shipowner for unpaid demurrage arising from discharge delays due to alleged cargo contamination during voyage.
Acted for charterers as respondents in LMAA arbitration for rectification of a bareboat charterparty.
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.
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.
Acted for a shipowner in an off-hire dispute with charterers under an amended Supplytime 2017 and subsequent enforcement action in Italy.
Acted for an OSV operator in a dispute with contractors under a TMSA and subsequent arbitration under UNCITRAL Rules.
Acted for a shipowner claiming unpaid bunker fuel under a time charter and subsequent LMAA arbitration against charterers.
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.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Joshua qualified as a solicitor in 2021. Prior to joining Keystone Law in 2025, he worked at the following firms:
