The Shipping Group provides a specialist legal service to shipping companies, transport companies and their insurers. Clients include liner operators, shipowners, charterers, shipping agents, freight forwarders, NVOCCs, banks, insurers and brokers. We provide services such as legal advice and assistance in relation to both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Prettys also offers assistance with proceedings outside the UK by utilising an established network of experienced foreign legal correspondents.

Prettys offers a full range of dispute resolution from litigation (including ship arrest and injunctive relief) to arbitration and alternative dispute resolution.

We are familiar with most of the commonly used international arbitration procedures including the ICC, the London Court of International Arbitration and the London Maritime Arbitrators' Association. We also have experience with arbitrations pursuant to the rules of the Refined Sugar Association, the Sugar Association of London, the London Metal Exchange, GAFTA and FOSFA. Prettys is a member of the LMAA and UKWA http://www.ukwa.org.uk.

Quoted from The Legal 500 2006,

"Paul Dickie heads Prettys' large shipping team, which has recently been handling an increasing amount of ship finance work. It also defended a $1m loss of cargo claim brought against Yang Ming, and handled a $400,000 crane damage case in India. Dinesh Dorai Raj, who is dual qualified in the UK and Singapore, has a good reputation, and clients say that they have 'nothing but praise for the whole team'."

Quoted from Chambers and Partners, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2007,

"This Ipswich-based maritime group’s reach extends to London, Felixstowe and Harwich. Building on its Spanish reputation, the team is getting increasing volumes of referrals from Spanish firms. Being a broad practice, it incorporates cargo matters as diverse as the defence of asbestosis claims brought against a new client, to advising an international transport group in response to a claim for the loss of a shipment of human plasma. A background working in overseas markets serves partner Paul Dickie well in his maritime work, where he advises on the full range of dry disputes and some offshore construction matters."