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Dickinson Gleeson Offices
3RD FLOOR LE GALLAIS BUILDING
6 MINDEN PLACE
ST HELIER
JE2 4WQ
Jersey
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James Dickinson
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
James is the firm’s Managing Partner and a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department.
Career
Trained Morgan Cole; qualified 1997 as an English solicitor; admitted as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey 2004; admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court 2008 (non-practising); Morgan Cole 1995-99; Sinels Advocates 1999-2002; Bedell Cristin 2002-08; James Dickinson and Co 2009-10; partner Dickinson Gleeson 2010 to date.
James has over 20 years’ experience of dealing with complex commercial disputes in Jersey and other offshore and international jurisdictions. James has acted as an expert witness on Jersey law and regularly appears before the island’s senior courts.
He has a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice which encompasses asset recovery, trust and estate disputes, shareholder and other corporate disputes and cases involving access to information and the restraint of use of improperly obtained information.
James’s clients include ultra-HNWIs, HNWIs, financial institutions, law firms, executors, settlors, trustees and beneficiaries.
Languages
Basic French.
Memberships
Overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association.
Education
Harrow School; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1993 LLB (Hons)); College of Law, York (1994 LPC).
Leisure
Shooting, golf, tennis, surfing, reading and film.
Lawyer Rankings
Jersey > Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution
(Hall of Fame)Dickinson Gleeson is renowned for its expertise in complex trust disputes, ranging from the removal and replacement of trustees, to insolvent trust issues, and more. Founding partners James Dickinson
and James Gleeson lead the practice, both advising on a range of trust and commercial proceedings, including shareholder disputes and asset recovery matters. Guillaume Staal acts for fiduciaries regarding breach of duty and contractual claims, while Jonathan Barham, newly qualified as a Jersey advocate, handles both insolvency and trust cases.
Jersey > Private client, trusts and tax
With considerable expertise in trust disputes, Dickinson Gleeson represents HNWIs as trustees and beneficiaries and trust companies in issues resulting from contested restructuring efforts to disagreements between beneficiaries concerning trust property. Craig Swart heads the practice, maintaining a mixed contentious and advisory practice. James Dickinson acts for clients in trust disputes and asset recovery proceedings, with James Gleeson representing HNWIs, trustees, beneficiaries and executors in matters before the courts.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Jersey > Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution Jersey > Dispute resolution
- Private client, trusts and tax Jersey