Greg Lawton

Chancery and Commercial

Greg is instructed for trials, applications, costs and case management hearings, and conferences. His paper-based practice spans the full range of civil work – providing advice/opinions, and drafting statements of case, applications and contracts. He is regularly sought after for work by the solicitors who instruct him.

Greg’s practice extends to the following areas, for both claimants and defendants:

• Consumer finance and general consumer law
• Contract law
• Data protection and privacy / information law
• Company law
• Wills and probate
• Property law
• Insolvency
• Tax
• Intellectual property
• Pharmacy and medicines law

Publications

• 21 Handy Tips for Pupil Barristers
• Greg Lawton examines the decision in Baxter v Doble

Appointments

International Association for Pharmacy Safety and Environmental Standards (Reviewer)

Associations

British Chartered Institute for IT (Member)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Member and Faculty Fellow)

Education

LLM Master of Laws, University of Law

Graduate Diploma in Law, University of Law

MPharm Master of Pharmacy

Data Protection Practitioner

Freedom of Information Practitioner

CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe)

CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager

Awards

James Crouch Scholarship, Gray’s Inn

Advocacy Scholar, University of Law

Prescribed Information

Greg Lawton is a practising barrister, regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The information held by the BSB about him can be found here.

Greg’s clerks will provide no obligation quotations for all legal services that he provides. It is most common for Greg to undertake Court and Tribunal work for a brief fee plus refresher days, although fixed fees are available. For paperwork, Greg most commonly charges at an hourly rate, although fixed fees are available. Greg will typically return paperwork within 10-14 days, however professional commitments, complexity and volume of documentation can affect these approximate timescales.

Greg also undertakes Direct Access work. This work is undertaken on a contractual basis agreed between the client and Greg’s clerks. This is on fixed fee basis for a specific events such as a conference, advisory work, a hearing with additional hearing days (refreshers) or the drafting of specific documents. All work agreed to be undertaken by Greg with the fixed fee cost will be clearly outlined in the direct access contract signed by the client and will be payable in full prior to the commencement of the work.