Robert Glassford: an experienced and tactical litigator. Sound strategic approach backed up with robust legal analysis
Company & Commercial Litigation
- Extensive experience advising clients in shareholder and boardroom related disputes. Including, a £40m joint venture dispute between shareholders, and derivative action, which settled shortly before the commencement of a 3 month trial
- Advising a clients in a range of complex contractual disputes, including (for example) a multi-million pound dispute arising out of an outsourcing agreement for IT services
- Multi-million LCIA arbitration relating to the supply of dry bulk commodities – Incoterms
- Professional negligence claim against solicitors in relation to advice provided on the sale of a substantial hotel business
PFI
- For many years Robert has acted for public sector clients in a wide range of PFI related domestic arbitration, litigation and adjudication claims often arising from defects identified at schools and hospitals, and often in the context of PFI expiry or termination
Judicial Review / Public Law
- Advising both private and public sector clients in dozens of, often high profile, judicial reviews in a wide range of disciplines, including regulatory, healthcare, education and including in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court
- Regularly representing land owners and house-builders usually as interested parties in judicial review litigation relating to planning and environmental decisions by local authorities and the secretary of state
Intellectual Property and Confidential Information
- Acting for a US client in a dispute relating to the ownership of an EUTM
- Oil industry client – in multi-jurisdictional dispute involving misuse of confidential information, patent infringement and patent rectification claims
- Representing a North East engineering company in patent infringement proceedings