Personal bio
Grant is a Barrister based at Chambers in the North West, but with a practice that extends from Carlisle to Truro (once both in the same week). He has refined his areas of specialism to concentrate on the financial consequences of the breakdown of relationships (including marriages, same-sex marriages and civil partnerships) – as well as Trusts of Land claims, whether between cohabitees or other co-owners. This often includes the inter-play of Trusts of Land issues within applications for financial remedy on Divorce. Grant specialises in financial remedy work of high net worth, particularly those involving farms, companies, and high value pension arrangements For 6 years between 2013 -2019, Grant was instructed in over 160 Professional Negligence claims arising out of issues of Pension Sharing or Offsetting. This has given him a unique insight into the problems of Pension Sharing, the interplay between different forms of Defined Benefits or Defined Contributions Pensions and the pitfalls of attempting to conclude such matters without properly expert guidance. Grant has presented seminars extensively in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, lectured by ‘Webinar” to Solicitors nationally, and had (pre Covid-19) been invited to lecture to the Judicial College training course in June 2020. Grant is experienced in telephone and video link hearings, and actively promotes the use of technology to ensure that cases can continue to be heard. The use of e-bundles will soon be the norm. Grant is experienced in the receipt instructions electronically and the paperless conduct of cases. Early identification of the key issues can make arbitration particularly suitable for financial remedy disputes, enabling decisions to be reached efficiently and at considerable saving to the clients He offers video-conferencing facilities so that the parties can arbitrate from separate locations, and each side can take advantage of separate confidential video-conferencing. He also undertakes private FDRs or 'early evaluation hearings', which can also be arranged remotely.