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The only member of his family to attend university, Phil studied and graduated in architecture at UNSW. He traveled to Europe, worked briefly on the Barbican, but returned to Sydney when his father was ill, taking over his joinery shop. Phil married Freda, a designer, and belatedly started professional life in his early thirties. For the next 40 years he mostly practiced with only one assistant, and for over half that time it was the dedicated and highly talented Anna Bowen-James.

Lloyd’s commits to the future of the Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Branch In a move that has been strongly endorsed by UK maritime professional services body Maritime London, Lloyd’s has confirmed that it will continue to operate the Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Branch (LSAB) that oversees the Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) salvage contract and procedures. The Lloyd’s Council decision follows an industry-wide consultation over a proposal to put LSAB into ‘run off’ in the face of declining use of LOF – whether through improved safety of the maritime industry or a growing resistance by ...

Association of Average Adjusters champions highest professional standards amid challenges of an “extraordinary year” At the Association of Average Adjusters recent virtual annual general meeting, the over-riding message from chairman Michiel Starmans was that “the association has continued vigorously to serve the marine market and support its members professionally in the face of a most extraordinary year with the Pandemic putting nearly all Association events on hold.” Mr Starmans said: “The committee of management has continued to undertake the day-to-day business via virtual meet...

Jack Thompson of All Trades A reminiscence of one of the most unusual New York intellectuals Although I spent eight years studying English at Stony Brook University, where I was an undergraduate from 1974 to 1978 and a Ph.D. student until 1983, I was never a good fit in academia. None of my professors was engaged in an activity that seemed even remotely appealing: If they weren’t eagerly annotating doodles and smudges in the margins of medieval psalters, they were overanalyzing some obscure 17th-century poem. Most ominous of all, every new faculty hire seemed to belong to some cockamamie n...