Patrick Holloway

Practice Areas

​Patrick specialises in international trade, transport and insurance law, dealing with both contentious and non-contentious aspects of matters involving, among other things, sale and trade agreements, contracts of carriage, marine and non-marine insurance, arrests and attachments of ships and other property as security for maritime claims, including mortgage foreclosures, and the purchase and sale of ships, as well as dealing with ships in distress and marine casualties. Patrick deals with cargo claims, hull claims, ship building and repair (with particular focus on motor and sailing yachts), marine casualties, places of refuge for ships in distress, marine pollution, salvage and towage, and bunker disputes and claims.

Patrick is a past President of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa and recently retired as a board member of the International Bunker Industry Association. Patrick has been appointed as a co-Vice Chair of the Maritime & Transport Law Committee of the International Bar Association from January 2022, becoming the first South African to hold this position.

Patrick has represented the South African MLA at the Comité Maritime International since 2008 and is a member of the CMI 'Implementation of International Conventions and Promotion of Maritime Conventions' international working group. He is a guest lecturer and external examiner at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal to LLM students and an external examiner of post graduate students at the University of Cape Town. He is the pro bono lawyer for the National Sea Rescue Institute. A highly experienced offshore yachtsman, he is the current South African Class A ORC National champion keelboat skipper.

Career

Patrick's qualifications include:

Postgraduate Diploma (Shipping), University of Cape Town, 1996

LLB, University of Cape Town, 1990

BA, University of Cape Town, 1987

Admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa

Professional Memberships

Member of the Maritime Law Association of South Africa (National Executive Committee - 2006 to 2015, President 2014-2015)

Member of the International Bar Association (2011 to present)

Member of the International Bar Association, Officer Maritime & Transport Law Committee (2018 to present), Co-Vice Chair (2022 to present)

Member of the International Bunker Industry Association, Africa - Executive Committee (2007 to 2021)

Member of the International Bunker Industry Association - Board member (2015 to 2021)