James Collins has a broad-based commercial practice in line with Chambers profile. He specialises in Insurance and Reinsurance (including a substantial amount of Lloyd's litigation) and related fields such as brokers negligence; Conflict and Confidential Information; General Commercial Litigation including commercial fraud; general contract disputes including agency (in particular in shipping and insurance contexts) Sale of Goods, shipbuilding and management, franchise disputes, oil & gas; Arbitration law and practice including ICC arbitrations and Shipping and Carriage by Road, including charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, management disputes and CMR.