Workshop - Monday 8th October 2012 - Crisis Management: Protecting Your Assets

Ince & Co. LLP will host this one day workshop - Crisis Management: Protect Your Assets - Monday 8th October.     

Attend this workshop to gain an expert's understanding of the strategies to identify, manage and maximise the chance of protecting your assets as a result of a maritime crisis. 

Introducing Workshop Leaders:

Kevin Cooper, Partner, Ince & Co. LLP, London

Victor Fenwick, Senior Associate, Ince & Co. LLP, London

Agenda:

09.00 Registration & coffee

09.30 Welcome

09.40 Planning for a Maritime Emergency: How to Get a Head Start

• Legal emergency response planning
• Paper trails
• SMS requirements

10.20 Collisions: How to Gain a Tactical Advantage

• Principles of apportionment of liability
• Limitation of liability
• Choice of jurisdication

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Pollution: How to Minimise the Environmental and Financial Impact

• Legal regimes
• Practical steps
• Case examples

12.10 Criminalisation of Seafarers: Protecting Your Most Important Asset

• The international perspective
• The response of the shipping industry
• Tips for avoiding exploitation of crew
• What happens when a crew member turns hostile?

12.50 Questions

13.00 Lunch

14.10 Salvage and General Average: How to Get the Best Deal

• Lloyd's Open Form
• Alternatives to Lloyd's Open Form
• General Average

14.50 Protecting Your Claim: Ships Can Sink and Evidence Can be Lost!

• Ship arrest
• Other forms of seizure of assets
• Evidence preservation orders

15.10 Piracy: A Developing Industry

• Initial steps
• Legal issues
• Armed guards
• Negotiating and paying the ransom

15.40 Collision Case Study - working in teams and guided by the workshop leaders you will manage a typical collision case making real time decissions seeking to gain a tactical advantage over your opponents!

16.50 Open Forum & Final Remarks

17.00 Close

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