Chris Greenwell

Partner

Leicester

contact details

• e: Chris Greenwell
• dt: +44 (0) 116 285 9056
• df: +44 (0) 116 285 9001
• m: +44 (0) 7778 049 691

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expertise

Chris mainly deals with professional negligence (issues arising out of insolvency and solicitors in particular) and complex commercial disputes. He specialises in contentious probate/inheritance claims and develops the firm's practice in this field.

He also deals with a wide range of warranty, banking and personal guarantee claims and general commercial litigation. Much of this litigation is resolved at mediation.

Dispute resolution in other fields is dealt with by teams of lawyers specialising in their particular areas of practice.

Chris is a member of The Professional Negligence Lawyers Association.

experience

Chris has practised in criminal defence, employment, personal injury (former member of a personal injury panel) and employment litigation over the last 25 years in Leicester; a collection of experience invaluable in delivery of the range of his practice and particular specialism's now.

He has acted to prosecute and defend in criminal proceedings and for claimants and defendants in claims in India, Germany, Dubai (on many occasions) and the USA.

Chris acts for several fully listed PLCs, national lenders, many SME/OMB clients and private individuals. His work is by no means specific to Leicester or the East Midlands. A recent new claim is a large surveyor negligence claim in relation to the sale of a hotel on the south coast of England.

successes

Recovery at mediation in October 2010 in £1.2 million claim for national lender against negligent solicitors and third parties in a sovereign state. Principle issue was the inviolability from litigation of a diplomatic mission, with a very substantial confidential settlement achieved.

Recovery in December 2009 of agency commissions at £1.6 million upon Angolan supply contract.

Acted for the taxpayer in the leading case of Jones -v- Garnett (Artic Systems Limited)) 2007; HMRC's defeat in the House of Lords exposed HMRC to lost revenue in excess of £1 billion.

Acted for Dubai based Isle of Man company in the reported miss-selling claim Peekay Intermark -v- ANZ in the Court of Appeal in April 2006. The case looked at the effect of misrepresentations upon the enforceable terms of a final contract for the sale of complex Russian derivative instrument.

interests

Chris enjoys mountaineering, skiing, rugby and military history.