Nigel Cooper , KC
Nigel appears before the business and appellate courts in England & Wales, and has a strong arbitration practice before all the main international and domestic arbitral bodies. Nigel accepts appointments as an arbitrator and has acted as a mediator and as a party’s representative. He has experience of public inquiries having appeared for the government in three major formal investigations.
Nigel’s Insurance and Reinsurance practice extends to policy disputes in both the non- marine and marine sectors as well as to the review and drafting of policy wordings. Nigel’s commercial practice covers most aspects of international trade and the carriage of goods, commodities, brokerage and commercial management disputes, fraud & illegality, and professional negligence. His shipping practice includes all forms of bill of lading and charterparty disputes; shipbuilding (including superyachts and military vessels) off-shore construction; ship sale and purchase;, arrest, limitation and collision actions and pollution In addition to his commercial shipping practice, Nigel has a specialist practice in superyacht litigation. In the energy sector, Nigel’s work covers both upstream and downstream aspects of the industry including drilling and exploration, production and the sale and purchase of energy products as well as on related issues such as the enforcement of related guarantees and the insurance of drilling units. In all areas of his practice, Nigel is experienced in dealing with related jurisdictional and enforcement issues.
Nigel has considerable experience of handling cases that are factually and technically complex and is increasingly instructed for disputes with an overseas seat of arbitration.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Qualified Year
- 1987
Year Taken Silk
- 2010
Experience
- Quadrant Chambers (1990 - Present)
Membership
- LMAA
- LCIA
- Combar
- Bar European Group
- GMAA
Qualifications
- LLB (1986)
- Call to the Bar (1987)
- Diploma of European Law (1988)
- LLM (1992)
Education
- University of Leeds (1983 - 1986)
- Inns of Court School of Law (1986 - 1987)
- University of Amsterdam (1987 - 1988)
- University of London (Queen Mary) (1990 - 1992)
1 Contributions by Nigel Cooper
PRACTICE NOTES
Marine insurance law essentials: MIA 1906 and IA 2015, policy types, perils, warranties, seaworthiness, total loss, general average and salvage, disclosure, subrogation, causation, and choice of law
Introduction
This Practice Note sets out to familiarise readers with the principal ideas underpinning the law of marine insurance, noting where it coincides with, and where it diverges from, insurance law in general. The evolution of marine insurance in England, and the jurisprudence that accompanies it, can likely be followed back to the thirteenth century, when insuring ships and their cargoes emerged in step with growing maritime commerce. In origin, marine insurance law sprang from the carriage of goods and passengers by sea, extending to cover both property perils and liability exposures. The statutory definition of a marine insurance contract in section 1 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 (MIA 1906) is notably broad: an agreement under which the insurer promises to indemnify the assured for marine losses, namely losses arising out of a marine adventure. That expansive wording is developed further by MIA 1906, section 2, which broadens the notion of a marine insurance contract to embrace protection against losses on inland waters, or any land risk incidental to a sea voyage, together with risks connected to the construction or launching of a ship, or any undertaking analogous to a marine adventure under MIA 1906, section 2, and section 1...
Insurance & Reinsurance
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