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Practice Summary

Glenn’s core practice is based upon litigation and arbitration involving:-

Chancery disputes including:

  • Trusts, public and private and issues relating to the obligations of fiduciaries and rights/remedies in Equity 

  • Wills, Probate and Administration of Estates 

  • Property, including registered and unregistered conveyancing, rights over and interests in land, commercial and residential landlord and tenant 

  • Agricultural Law, particularly trust and land related

  • Company and insolvency problems 

  • IP including copyright, designs, trade marks and passing off; breach of confidence 

  • Contentious trust problems

  • Elder Law, including COP Property and Finance/Health and Welfare 

  • Commercial litigation and contractual disputes

  • Claims against professionals, particularly lawyers but also architects, accountants and auditors, insurance brokers and IP agents 

Glenn’s initial years of practice were spent at the criminal defence Bar where he was able to develop his advocacy skills, and then as a member of Chancery chambers in Lincoln’s Inn for over a decade. 

Glenn is highly regarded for his expertise and knowledge of the defence of professional negligence claims, primarily against barristers and solicitors, where his reported cases include:- 

  • Bristol and West Building Society-v-Mothew [1998] Ch., 1 (leading authority on fiduciary duty and breach of trust claims) 

  • Wilks-v-Perkins Mainman [2005] EWCA Civ 738 (alleged negligence in the context of a contested minority shareholder dispute) 

  • Various Angelgate Claimants-v-Key Manchester Limited [2021] PNLR., 413 (multiple claims against solicitors arising out of fractional ownership development schemes; contested application to add collective investment scheme FSMA claims) 

And extending to claims arising out of high value personal injury and clinical negligence claims, for example:- 

  • Miller-v-Garton Shires [2007] RTR., 285 (approach to be adopted on summary judgment application made in the context of an allegation of under settlement of a catastrophic road traffic accident claim) 

  • Dunhill-v-(1) W Brook and Co (2) Justin Crossley [2018] EWCA Civ 505 (allegations of breach of duty in the compromise of a complex brain injury claim) 

 

Glenn's professional indemnity experience includes disputes arising out of the conduct of criminal litigation, including proceeds of crime and asset seizure cases, claims generated by family dispute resolution matters, and a very broad spectrum of commercial and contractual cases, contentious and non contentious.  

In addition to his core practice fields, Glenn has experience of and familiarity with:- 

  • Ecclesiastical disputes, relating to both faculty and disciplinary matters 

  • Regulatory proceedings against, in particular, lawyers 

  • As a member of the New York State Bar and admitted to practice in a number of US Federal Courts, cases which raise US issues 

  • As a member of www.adminlaw.org.uk, a broad range of proceedings heard by the Administrative Court [including urgent medical treatment cases] 

  • Inquests 

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