profile for graham charnock - partner

B Com and LLB (University of Cape Town);
Diploma in Business Management

Attorney, High Court of South Africa; Admitted to practise in South Africa, Namibia and Lesotho; Member of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope; Member of Cape Town Attorneys Association ;Member of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa; Member of International Bar Association; Member of Inter-Pacific Bar Association

Graham Charnock has been practising in the Maritime and Transport Department of Findlay and Tait for some 25 years and has specialised in this area of law. Graham is a member of Committee A (Maritime and Transport) of the International Bar Association and has delivered papers at IBA conferences as well as other maritime conferences, including the fall meetings of the USMLA and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.

Graham also has extensive experience in other areas of law, in general litigation, negligence, insurance, personal injury, bankruptcies and client recoveries.

Graham has been involved in numerous well-known South African maritime legal cases, for example, the “Snow Delta”, the “Kalamos”, the “Navigator”, the “Fortune 22”, the “Forum Victory”, the “Ais Mamas” and the “Urgup”. He has been extensively involved in collision work and other casualties and has also initiated and finalised several major judicial sales.

Graham has been involved in the publication of the firm’s booklets 'The Enforcement of Maritime Claims in South Africa' and has also been asked by Kluwer Law International to update the section in its Maritime Law Handbook on arrests in South Africa.

Graham has been involved in a wide range of Maritime Legal services including:

Practice Focus

• Arrests and enforcement of maritime claims
• Maritime casualty/collisions and salvage
• Associated ship arrests
• Security arrests
• Carriage of goods disputes
• Mortgage foreclosures
• PandI work
• Pollution
• Stowaways
• Shipbuilding and repairs
• Hull and cargo insurance
• Personal injuries

Graham has acted as legal correspondent for several PandI clubs engaged in a wide range of services, such services being rendered in the ports of Cape Town, Saldanha Bay, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Walvis Bay (Namibia), Durban and Luanda (Angola).

Graham specialises in Admiralty Law, Maritime and Transport Law, Shipping Litigation, General Litigation, Negligence Law, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Law and Bankruptcy Law.

Areas of Practice

Dispute Resolution

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