Richard Shaw

Richard Shaw was a specialist in admiralty law. After early years at Richards Butler and Elborne Mitchell, he co-founded the law firm Shaw and Croft in 1980 and practised there until 1995; the firm acted in major casualties including the Atlantic Empress/Aegean Captain collision, Piper Alpha and the Aegean Sea spill.

He went on to teach marine insurance and salvage as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton Institute of Maritime Law and edited Kennedy on Salvage. An authority on French maritime law, he was elected Member Honoris Causa of the Comité Maritime International in 2012. He died in 2013.

He spoke at Mare Forum's seminar on the HNS Convention.