OUR PEOPLE / HARRY HIRST

Harry HirstPartner, Hong Kong
harry.hirst@incelaw.com
+852 2877 3221

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Master Mariner Harry Hirst joined Ince & Co in London in 1989. He moved to Hong Kong in 1992 and became a partner in 2006.

Before joining Ince & Co Harry worked for 14 years with Mobil Shipping Co. Ltd, serving as a deck officer on tankers ranging from 3,000 to 300,000 tonnes deadweight in size. Harry has degrees in law and nautical studies and is a Fellow of the Nautical Institute.

"ability to produce truly outstanding work" Chambers Asia 2010.

Harry specialises in Admiralty law, dealing primarily with shipping casualties involving collision, grounding, total loss and pollution. He has been involved in several major cases of this nature, starting with the Bowbelle/Marchioness collision in London in 1989 and the Ocean Blessing/Nagasaki Spirit collision off Singapore in 1992. Harry also acted on the Hebei Spirit pollution incident in Korea in 2007, and the Neftegaz 67/Yao Hai collision in Hong Kong in 2008.

He has travelled extensively around Asia on casualty matters, and is familiar with the law and procedures in several of the local jurisdictions, particularly Japan, Korea and China.

Harry also handles other shipping matters, including charterparty disputes and cargo claims, particularly in relation to charterparty matters and cargo claims arising in shipping casualties, where transhipment and general average issues also often arise.