Maritime law practice is a branch of our commercial law practice at AUGUSTSONS LP which also overlaps into our Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation unit. Maritime is a peculiar, sensitive and dicey area of the economy and requires the best of the best hands to keep on in business.
With vibrant lawyers manning the Maritime team at AUGUSTSONS LP, our clients who are major players in the maritime industry are always safe in the firm belief that their legal business and affairs in the maritime industry are being handled by capable hands.
Our relationships with relevant agencies in the maritime industry ensures that our clients have all the necessary legal and regulatory backings needed to legitimately carry on with their legitimate day to day activities in the industry. We equally handle our clients’ shipping activities from port of loading to port of discharge. We have gained enormous faith and trust from our maritime clients and our engagements have soared higher as our activities on behalf of our clients speak for themselves.
The dicey and unsure nature of maritime business however means that even some well-planned business activities might go wrong as a result of no fault of ours or our clients’, which might inevitably lead to disputes.
In situations like this, we must, and do always protect our clients’ interests either through any alternative dispute resolution mechanism or through the court process.
Our highly knowledgeable and dynamic team of lawyers handling our maritime briefs are good at what they do. Our lawyers are adept with relevant legislations and regulations guiding maritime practice in Nigeria and globally such as the Hague-Visby Rules, the Hamburg Convention, Admiralty Jurisdiction Act and Rules, and other relevant executive and judicial pronouncements in the field. We are also adept with the procedure for arresting ships and sister ships should the occasions warrant same.
With our wealth of experience in this area of law coming into play when needed, we have perfected our clients brief and interests with resounding successes at various times both within and outside the courtrooms.