Clementine is a sought-after junior barrister specialising in commercial disputes. Her recent cases involve shipping, international trade, civil fraud, energy and infrastructure, insurance and reinsurance, shipbuilding and construction. Many of her cases span multiple jurisdictions.
Clementine has led and unled experience in litigation in the English courts (particularly in the Commercial Court) and in international arbitration under a variety of rules. She has acted in several substantial arbitration hearings seated in London, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
Clementine brings significant in-house experience, having worked at a London law firm and at Nordisk Defence Club, a leading FD&D club based in Norway. This experience gives Clementine a strong understanding of the commercial realities faced by clients, enabling her to provide focused and practical advice.
Clementine was ranked by the Legal 500 as a Rising Star in Shipping in 2023, at just three years’ call.
Before qualifying as a barrister Clementine studied Geography at the University of Cambridge and graduated with the highest mark in her year. Clementine has also studied Chinese in Tianjin, China.
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Shipping, commodities and international trade
- Instructed in several matters related to or arising out of the conflict in Iran.
- Instructed by the owners in a highly technical dispute arising out of a charterparty for an LNG carrier (led by Henry Byam-Cook KC).
- Instructed by the owners in a charterparty dispute related to war risks and attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea (led by Colleen Hanley).
- Instructed by the owners in a technically and legally complex shipping case with a three-week LMAA arbitration hearing (led by Christopher Hancock KC and Alexander Wright KC). The arbitration led to a section 69 application in which Clementine acted for the successful respondent (permission was denied).
- Instructed by the owners in a case involving the termination of a charterparty following the imposition of EU sanctions (led by Alexander Wright KC).
- Acted for the charterers in a multi-million dollar unsafe port charterparty dispute involving a two-week Hong Kong seated arbitration hearing. The case involved questions about the application of the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 (led by Sean O’Sullivan KC).
- Instructed in a section 69 appeal on a point of law from an arbitration award involving novel issues about the arrest of a vessel and the application of the Supreme Court decision in The Global Santosh [2016] UKSC 20 (led by Sean O’Sullivan KC).
- Instructed as sole counsel in a c. USD 6 million LMAA arbitration about the termination of a five-year time charterparty.
- Instructed as sole counsel in two related LMAA arbitrations concerning contamination of cargo onboard a vessel.
- Instructed as sole counsel in four parallel commodities disputes in the Commercial Court, with a combined value of over USD 800,000.
- Clementine worked at Nordisk Defence Club in Oslo from June 2024 to December 2025. She worked on a huge variety of shipping related matters including charterparty disputes, sanctions, offshore, LNG/FSRUs, shipbuilding and finance and bank guarantees.
General commercial
- Instructed in a high-value civil fraud case in the English courts, which concerns issues of jurisdiction and conflict of laws (led by Alexander Wright KC and Ed Jones).
- Instructed by GLD in a high-value and complex government commercial case involving complex contractual arrangements and technical evidence (led by Alex Charlton KC, Michael Davie KC and Sanjay Patel KC).
- Instructed to advise in a commercial dispute about the proper construction of a collaboration agreement regarding the sale of fuel efficiency technology for commercial vessels.
- Assisted (as a pupil) with submissions to the Court of Appeal in a fraud case, in relation to whether an innocent party that receives cash from a fraudster should have to give credit for the “time value” of that cash as a “benefit received” from the transaction: Tuke v Hood [2022] EWCA 23.
Energy and infrastructure
- Acted in a nine-figure ICC arbitration about the construction of a transport infrastructure system in the Middle East, which culminated in a four-week hearing (led by Alexander Hickey KC and Thomas Crangle).
- Instructed by an energy company in multiple cases about commission paid to energy brokers, raising issues of secret and half-secret commissions and fiduciary duties.
- Frequently instructed in shipping disputes involving the carriage of oil and LNG.
Insurance and reinsurance
- In early 2026 Clementine completed a secondment in the marine team of a leading London law firm where she gained experience across shipping, insurance and reinsurance. The matters Clementine worked on spanned issues including avoidance of a marine insurance policy following breach of the duty of fair presentation, unseaworthiness of a vessel at the commencement of a voyage on which it grounded, breach of a sue and labour clause and the interpretation of aggregation clauses.
- Advised in a case involving complex questions of marine insurance following damage to a yacht (led by Ed Jones).
- Frequently instructed in subrogated claims, particularly involving P&I clubs in relation to charterparty disputes.
Shipbuilding and construction
- Instructed in a four-day LMAA arbitration in a shipbuilding dispute about the sale of offshore equipment (led by Alexander Wright KC).
- Acted for the buyers in an LMAA arbitration, successfully obtaining an award for specific performance of the obligation to deliver the vessel (led by Sean O’Sullivan KC).
- Acted in a nine-figure ICC arbitration about the construction of a transport infrastructure system in the Middle East, which culminated in a four-week hearing (led by Alexander Hickey KC and Thomas Crangle).
- Instructed in an adjudication about a commercial development in the UK, which involved defects across a range of disciplines and a termination dispute.
