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Rhys Clift
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Work Department
Insurance and reinsurance, shipping, arbitration, ADR and mediation.
Position
Partner specialising in marine and non-marine insurance and reinsurance, energy, cargo claims and charterparty disputes. Shortlisted as a finalist in the Lloyds List Global Awards 2009 as shipping lawyer of the year, and shortlisted as a finalist in the CEDR Awards for Excellence in ADR 2006 (innovation), and 2008 (sector). Also shortlisted as professional advisor of the year in the Insurance Day London Market Awards 2009. The ‘Who’s Who of Shipping and International Maritime Lawyers’ 2010 states that Rhy possesses ‘a remarkable depth of expertise’. Mediator panels include: Association for Internatonal Arbitration (AIA); CEDR Solve; CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (New York): CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals; Maritime Solicitors Mediaton Service.
Career
Trained Hill Dickinson & Co, qualified 1983; partner Hill Taylor Dickinson 1989, managing partner 1999-2003; CEDR accredited mediator 1998; co-founder and co-ordinator Maritime Solicitors Mediation Service 2003; joined Hill Dickinson on merger in 2006; CEDR Solve mediator 2009. Rhys is a contributing author to ‘Alternative Dispute Resolution in Practice’, published by the Institute of Insurance of London (2011).
Languages
French.
Member
British Insurance Law Association; Association Française de Droit Maritime; CII; CIArb; supporting member of the Average Adjusters’ Association and the American Average Adjusters’ Association; Law Society; Oil & Petrochemical Energy Risks Association; British Marine Law Association; Steering Committee, London Shipping Law Centre.
Education
Wellington Grammar School; Aberystwyth University (1979 LLB Hons); Université d’Aix en Provence, France (1981 Diplome d’Etudes Supérieures d’Université (DESU)).
Leisure
Tennis, swimming, piano.
Practice Areas
Arbitration, ADR, mediation; Litigation - insurance/reinsurance; Shipping - marine
