Dickinson Gleeson

Dispute Resolution

James is the firm’s Managing Partner and a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department.

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.

Basic French.

Overseas member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Harrow School; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1993 LLB (Hons)); College of Law, York (1994 LPC).

Shooting, golf, tennis, surfing, reading and film.