Signature Litigation LLP

Litigation, Private Wealth Disputes, international contentious trusts and estates

Elliott is the Founding Partner of Signature’s Gibraltar office. He is an internationally recognised barrister and specialises in offshore contentious trusts, estates and private wealth disputes.

His practice also includes commercial litigation, civil fraud, asset tracing, insolvency and shareholder disputes. His dual qualification as a barrister in England and Gibraltar places him in a unique position, enabling him to accept instructions to appear before all Courts in England and Wales.

Primarily based in Gibraltar, Elliott is regularly instructed by leading international firms in which Gibraltar proceedings are issued or where there is a strong Gibraltar connection to the litigation. Elliott has considerable experience in the area of contentious trusts and appears regularly before the Chancery Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar, the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council on matters relating to the administration of trusts.

Elliott’s cases involve removal of trustees, protectors and executors, challenging trustees’ decisions, breach of trust, advising trustees and beneficiaries on freezing orders, in both domestic and in support of foreign proceedings, as well as advising on trusts in the divorce context.

Beyond his chancery/commercial work, Elliott led a team in Gibraltar’s first ever abuse of dominate position claim under the Competition Act 2020 and related regulatory appeals up to Gibraltar final appellate level before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Elliott is also a proponent of pro-bono and has led the advocacy on behalf of many families in the context of inquests involving, health authorities, the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy, the Prison Service and law enforcement agencies including successfully securing a verdict of unlawful killing.

In 2015, Elliott was duly elected as a Member of Parliament in Gibraltar and served as the Shadow Minister for Justice between November 2015 and November 2017 and as HM Leader of the Opposition from 4 December 2017 to 19 October 2019. Elliott was re-elected in 2019 for a further four years and currently serves as Shadow Minister for Health and the Environment. Elliott retired from front line politics in October 2023.

Elliott is a Barrister at Law in Gibraltar and admitted as a regulated foreign lawyer in the UK.

Associate, ISOLAS LLP, 2002; Senior Associate, ISOLAS LLP, 2006; Head of Commercial Litigation, ISOLAS, 2010; Founding Partner, Gibraltar office, Signature Litigation, 2016.

Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

University of Plymouth