One accountable point of contact in India.
Most maritime disputes in India are handled by lawyers who must reconstruct what happened at sea from someone else's account. Here, the founding counsel commanded ships before he came to the Bar, so you are not paying a lawyer to instruct a separate technical expert and then translate between them. You instruct once; we coordinate across India's admiralty jurisdictions and run the matter wherever in India it needs to be run.
How we work with you.
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For P&I Clubs & correspondents
India-side legal counsel on member matters: casualty response, cargo claims, crew and personal-injury claims, ship arrest and security, and recovery actions. We coordinate across India's admiralty jurisdictions and instruct local surveyors and agents under our supervision, giving you a single accountable point of contact rather than a patchwork.
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For FD&D insurers
Defence and recovery support on freight, demurrage, charterparty and bill-of-lading disputes, including merits assessment, quantum analysis, and a realistic view of recovery prospects in the Indian forum before costs are committed.
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For overseas maritime law firms
We act as Indian co-counsel where your matter touches an Indian port, an Indian-flagged vessel, an Indian cargo interest, or an arrest opportunity in Indian waters. We co-counsel cleanly, brief you in your own working format, and respect that the client relationship remains yours.
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For owners, managers & charterers
Advice on liability exposure and dispute strategy, and representation in proceedings before the admiralty High Courts.
Why instruct counsel who has commanded ships.
Founding counsel Capt. Pramod Kumar Singh holds a Master (Foreign-Going) certificate and commanded vessels at sea for ten years, followed by fourteen years as General Manager of marine operations and four years as Director of Marine & Commercial Operations, which gave him direct grounding in chartering, claims and the commerce of running ships, before qualifying as an advocate. He is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (M.I.C.S., UK). In a casualty or cargo matter, that background changes what the file looks like. A report written by someone who has kept the watch reads both the document and the event behind it.
India port & court coverage.
Admiralty matters are heard in the coastal High Courts under the Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of Maritime Claims) Act, 2017. We appear and co-counsel across the principal maritime jurisdictions, being the Bombay, Gujarat, Madras, Calcutta, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala and Orissa High Courts, instructing trusted local counsel and surveyors under our supervision where local presence is required. For the full picture of capabilities, ports and forums, see the maritime practice page.