Charles Holroyd

Date of Birth: 1970
Date of Call: 1997
Languages: German (fluent), French (working knowledge)

General Information
B.A. (Oxon) (First Class) Dip. d’ét. sup. (Geneva) Holker Award, Mould Senior Scholarship

Practice
Charles Holroyd has a broad commercial practice which includes general commercial disputes, insurance and reinsurance, carriage of goods by sea and road, sale of goods, shipping, international trade and conflicts of law.

Charles has acted in a number of substantial reinsurance arbitrations, in particular concerning marine excess of loss reinsurance. He also has wide experience of shipping arbitrations. He has frequently appeared before the Commercial Court.

Selected Cases
Trafigura Beheer BV v Mediterranean Shipping Company SA ("MSC Amsterdam") {2007] EWCA Civ 794 (Misdelivery of cargo; Hague vs Hague Visby Rules; date of assessment of damages for conversion; construction of exemption clauses in charterparty)

Balmoral Group Limited v. Borealis A/S and others [2006] EWHC 2228 (Comm.) (Procedure, whether the trial judge can, after the conclusion of the hearing at which a decision sought to be appealed is made, extend time for an application to himself for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal)

Balmoral Group Limited v. Borealis A/S and others [2006] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 629 (International Sale of Goods, deciding UCTA reasonableness, whether goods at a holding depot were in the course of international carriage, applicability of UCTA to a foreign law contract, inter-relationship of sections 14(2) and 14(3) Sale of Goods Act 1979, incorporation of standard terms and conditions after trading has commenced, remoteness of damage when loss is increased by a subsequent change in legislation, evidence required to prove corporate losses.)

Sabo S.A. v UASC S.A.G. [2005] EWHC 307 (Comm) (Fraud, misrepresentation)

The "Martin P" [2004] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 389 (Double insurance, contribution, insurable interest, mistake, authority of agents, whether rights of contribution between insurers affected by post-loss cancellation of policy)

The "Ruta" [2000] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 359; [2000] 1 WLR 2068 (Admiralty, relative priority of maritime liens).

Petrotrade Inc. & Ors. v. Smith & Ors. [2000] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 486 (Agency, bribery, constructive trust, vicarious liability).

Other
“The post-contractual duty of utmost good faith in insurance law:  a legal albatross?  The Star Sea considered", Shipping and Trade Law (March 2001).