Gareth Bell

Practice Areas

Gareth is a litigation lawyer who specialises in trust, company (including directors' duties), insolvency, professional negligence and other financial services disputes. He also has an active practice in semi-contentious trust matters.

Gareth is a qualified Guernsey Advocate and currently leads the firm's Guernsey Corporate Disputes team.

Career

Gareth qualified as solicitor in 2001 with RPC in London and joined Collas Crill in 2005. Gareth qualified as a Guernsey Advocate in 2008 and became a partner of Collas Crill in 2010. Since then, he has been involved in a number of trials in the Royal Court of Guernsey and several appeals to the Court of Appeal and Privy Council. Gareth acted for the successful non-executive director defendants in the long running, multi-billion dollar Carlyle litigation that eventually concluded in 2020. He also recently acted for the Registrar of the Chambre de Discipline (the disciplinary body for Advocates) on the first ever appeal of a disciplinary matter to the Court of Appeal, where he was successful.

Professional Memberships

ARIES (Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Experts)

Chancery Bar Association

ACTAPS (Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists)