James Gleeson

Office Location

Jersey

Short Biography

James Gleeson TEP is an Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey and a non-practicing English qualified solicitor. James is a founding Partner of Dickinson Gleeson. James has nearly 25 years’ experience of dealing with complex commercial disputes in Jersey and other offshore / international jurisdictions. He has a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice which encompasses insolvency and asset recovery, trust and estate, shareholder, funds and other corporate disputes. James acts for ultra HNWI, HNWI, financial institutions, law firms, executors, settlors, trustees and beneficiaries. He has also frequently been called by foreign courts to appear as an expert witness of Jersey law, regularly appears before Jersey’s senior courts and is recommended in all leading legal directories.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Bohemia

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Understate your position and let the tribunal reach its own view.

What was your first job?

Cleaning targets at Crabbe Activity Centre

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec

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