Gareth Bell
Partner
Areas of practice
Gareth specialises in commercial disputes, principally banking (including money laundering, asset tracing and freezing and disclosure orders), trusts, (re)insurance and professional negligence matters.
Expertise
Gareth acts for various local banks, trust companies and financial services businesses and has acted on some of the largest and most significant pieces of litigation to come before the Guernsey Courts over the past few years.
His recent cases include Duncan Barclay v Michael Beaumont, Seigneur of Sark; Soulbury v the Royal Bank of Scotland; the liquidation of Brownstone Insurance (Guernsey) Ltd; the Flightlease litigation stemming from the insolvency of SwissAir; acting for the Plaintiff institutional shareholder in a large investment fund dispute; defending several professional negligence claims brought against Independent Financial Advisers and lawyers; obtaining a freezing injunction and disclosure orders in support of a large contractual dispute being litigated in Jersey, and subsequently enforcing the Jersey judgment in Guernsey; and is acting for the Joint Administrators of Landsbanki (Guernsey) Limited (In Administration).
Gareth regularly writes articles on insurance, trusts and anti-money laundering matters (including articles published in the Lawyer magazine), and has spoken at various seminars and conferences on trusts and anti-money laundering issues. He is also a member of the Guernsey International Lawyers Association.
Gareth regularly writes articles on insurance, trusts and anti-money laundering matters (including articles published in the Lawyer magazine), and has spoken at various seminars and conferences on trusts and anti-money laundering issues. He is also a member of the Guernsey International Lawyers Association and STEP.
Career
University of Liverpool (LL.B)1998
College of Law, Chester (LPC) 1999
Admitted as Solicitor of England and Wales 2001
Trainee Solicitor and Solicitor, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, London 1999-2005
Joined Collas Day in 2005
Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France (Certificat d’Études Juridiques Françaises et Normandes) 2006
Called to the Guernsey Bar as an Advocate in 2008
Outside Work
Gareth lives in St Peter Port and is married with three children. In his spare time he enjoys windsurfing and playing golf, cricket and football.
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0)1481 734275
Fax: +44 (0)1481 723637
Email: gareth.bell@collasday.com