Gary has a mixed commercial / chancery practice focusing on all types of commercial disputes, whether arising from contract or other breach of duty, including joint ventures, partnerships, shareholders’ and directors’ disputes, commercial fraud, sales of goods and services, agency and professional negligence particularly in relation to legal and financial services, property, trusts of land, landlord and tenant, contentious probate and Inheritance Act claims. He is highly regarded for providing astute commercially sound advice and providing excellent client care. His long experience as a solicitor before he transferred to the Bar means that he is attuned to and sensitive to the demands placed on legal professionals and their lay clients.

Education

LLB

Memberships

ELA
Industrial Law Society
ELBA
DLA
SEC

Interests

Sailing and Golf

Publications

“To be or not to be” – Agency workers and the Swedish derogation. Adviser 2012
“Why are(n’t) you being so reasonable now?” – Equality & Human Rights Commission news letter, October 2010
“Re-substitution” – Adviser 137 2010
“Holidays in the sun” – Adviser 136 2009
“Glad its all over” – Adviser 133 2009
“The proper place for ‘custom & practice'” – Adviser 123 2007
“Substitution clauses and status” – Adviser 117 2006
“Telling the Time by the Employment Act 2002” – Adviser 104 2004
“Telling the Time” – Adviser 100 2003

Civil

• Employment
• Fraud and misrepresentation
• Housing, planning and local government
• Mediation
• Personal injury, criminal injury and clinical negligence
• Property and wills (chancery, trusts of land, family provision and probate)

Crime

• Civil Recovery
• Insolvency

Public

• Administrative law & Judicial Review
• Inquests
• Local Authority
• Sports and disciplinary

Abbey plc v Fairbrother [2007] IRLR 320