About Edward
Edward specialises in handling liability claims across the whole spectrum of the aviation sector including airlines, manufacturers, airports and ATC, ground handlers, corporate jets, light aircraft and helicopters. He has been regularly involved in disaster response management and major accident litigation both in the UK and overseas, with notable examples including the Shoreham air crash in August 2015, the Vauxhall helicopter accident in January 2013, the loss of Asiana flight OZ214 at San Francisco in 2013 and the crash of a Swiftair MD83 aircraft over Mali in July 2014 with the loss of 116 lives.
Edward also has particular expertise and experience of insurance coverage disputes, including helping to lead a team which successfully fought London arbitration proceedings arising out of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. He was also involved in a London arbitration which successfully resisted a lessor claim against the market in connection with the loss of a fleet of aircraft in Mexico.
More recently, he has been absorbed in leading a team of lawyers in successfully defending a major group of All Risks insurers against billions of dollars worth of insurance claims brought around the world by aircraft lessors whose assets became stranded in Russia in 2022 following the introduction of international sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
