David Martin-Clark

Personal Bio

Job Title: Shipping & Insurance - Arbitrator, Mediator & Consultant

Areas of Expertise: Arbitration,Mediation,Expert Witness

David Martin-Clark currently practises as a Maritime Arbitrator and Commercial Disputes Mediator in London, Hamburg, Singapore and Hong Kong. He is a Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a full member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association and a panellist of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, the Chinese Maritime Arbitration Centre and of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre. He also works as a shipping & insurance consultant and as an expert witness.

He was previously engaged for some thirty years in the marine insurance business (principally shipowners’ liability insurance) in the London firm of Thomas Miller & Co, managers of the UK P&I Club, the UK Defence Club and the TT Club, and of mutual insurance associations for certain of the UK professions. He became Chief Executive and Chairman of the Miller group and founding Chairman of Thomas Miller (Asia Pacific) in Hong Kong, where he worked for some years.

After leaving Millers, David re-qualified as a barrister and from 2006 to 2016 he was an associate member of Stone Chambers in Gray’s Inn, London.

He is editor of the legal case notes website DMC’s CaseNotes @www.onlinedmc.co.uk, and is contributor to the IMLI Manual on International Maritime Law. He also lectures at post-graduate level in universities in the UK and overseas.