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PETER MURRELL is a specialised consultant with 35 years of legal experience in maritime, transport and trade law.

“Legal Profiles”, an independent review of the Australian legal profession, consistently rates Peter as one of the best lawyers in his areas of speciality in Australia. As recognition of this, he is a Fellow of a number of industry and professional associations and holds representative status to attend meetings of the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (“IMO”).

Peter has acted for transport owners and operators; customs brokers; freight forwarders; ship and boat builders and repairers; insurers and different arms of government.

Services provided by the division include:

* the sale and purchase of vessels;
* finance documentation associated with infrastructure projects;
* preparing terms of trade and terms and conditions of carriage and related documents;
* ship construction dispute;
* legal liability claims both for and against insurers;
* salvage and towing contracts and related disputes;
* arbitration, mediation and all manner of dispute resolution;
* the prosecution and defence of breaches of State of Commonwealth legislation; and
* claims for material damage and consequential losses arising form all manner of collisions.


The above list of work is by no means exclusive and  handles all manner of work involving maritime, transport and trade law.

As a result of Peter’s involvement with the IMO, he has established a network of contacts in some 150 countries with the result that the division handles work in all states and territories of Australia as well as most countries throughout the world.

Peters belief in the Trans-Help foundation and their objectives, resulted in him being a pro-bono solicitor for the last three years and now joins the Board of Directors.