Gary Swann

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Partner

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

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Expertise

Gary is a litigation and dispute resolution solicitor with more than 30 years of experience. He has a very broad commercial and private individual practice and has dealt with and advised on claims and disputes about land, property, intellectual property, joint ventures/sensitive commercial information, negligence, consumer rights, contractual claims and disputes, investments, malicious falsehood, breach of GDPR, fraud, and other heads of financial loss and damage.

Gary has expertise in dealing with claims and dispute resolution in the commercial and private sectors, including contractual and financial disputes between companies and other business organisations, breach of intellectual property rights, damage to property, boundary disputes, and obtaining injunctions in order to protect the rights and property of businesses and individuals.

Gary Advises

  • Private limited companies including transport and health care providers and a PLC
  • SMEs and owner-managed businesses
  • Private clients including high net worth individuals

Experience Highlights

  • Obtaining substantial damages and costs in the High Court arising from the misuse of confidential commercial information
  • Successfully defending a claim in the High Court based on the Concorde Agreement (Formula 1)
  • Developing the law on costs by obtaining an indemnity costs order after a successful two-weeks property trial (the case was reported nationally at litigation courses)
  • High Court litigation about the authenticity of two `Old Master` paintings
  • Receiving praise from two judges, one in the High Court and one in the County Court, for the high quality of his preparation of each of the trial bundles for those claims.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • John Barkers Solicitors (articled clerk, solicitor, and salaried partner:1988 – 1994)
  • Scammell and Braithwaite (solicitor and then partner: 1994 – 2007)
  • Beetenson and Gibbon Solicitors following a merger with Scammell and Braithwaite (salaried partner: 2007 – 2012)
  • James Legal Limited (solicitor and then director; 2015 – 2019)
  • Mason Baggott & Garton (litigation solicitor dealing with litigation and dispute resolution, except personal injury, across four offices; 2019 – 2024)

Education

  • University of Oxford (Classics and Modern Languages)
  • Birmingham School of Law

Awards

  • Gary won the Herbert Willison prize for law at Birmingham Law School in 1988.

Mentions in print

  • In a book written by a client for whom Gary (together with two other lawyers, a solicitor/colleague and a barrister) had successfully conducted substantial litigation, Gary was described, along with the other two lawyers, as being, in terms of character, a giant, and an honest, honourable man.

Expertise

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Gary is a litigation and dispute resolution solicitor with more than 30 years of experience. He has a very broad commercial and private individual practice and has dealt with and advised on claims and disputes about land, property, intellectual property, joint ventures/sensitive commercial information, negligence, consumer rights, contractual claims and disputes, investments, malicious falsehood, breach of GDPR, fraud, and other heads of financial loss and damage.

Gary has expertise in dealing with claims and dispute resolution in the commercial and private sectors, including contractual and financial disputes between companies and other business organisations, breach of intellectual property rights, damage to property, boundary disputes, and obtaining injunctions in order to protect the rights and property of businesses and individuals.

Gary Advises

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  • Private limited companies including transport and health care providers and a PLC
  • SMEs and owner-managed businesses
  • Private clients including high net worth individuals

Experience Highlights

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  • Obtaining substantial damages and costs in the High Court arising from the misuse of confidential commercial information
  • Successfully defending a claim in the High Court based on the Concorde Agreement (Formula 1)
  • Developing the law on costs by obtaining an indemnity costs order after a successful two-weeks property trial (the case was reported nationally at litigation courses)
  • High Court litigation about the authenticity of two `Old Master` paintings
  • Receiving praise from two judges, one in the High Court and one in the County Court, for the high quality of his preparation of each of the trial bundles for those claims.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • John Barkers Solicitors (articled clerk, solicitor, and salaried partner:1988 – 1994)
  • Scammell and Braithwaite (solicitor and then partner: 1994 – 2007)
  • Beetenson and Gibbon Solicitors following a merger with Scammell and Braithwaite (salaried partner: 2007 – 2012)
  • James Legal Limited (solicitor and then director; 2015 – 2019)
  • Mason Baggott & Garton (litigation solicitor dealing with litigation and dispute resolution, except personal injury, across four offices; 2019 – 2024)

Education

  • University of Oxford (Classics and Modern Languages)
  • Birmingham School of Law

Awards

  • Gary won the Herbert Willison prize for law at Birmingham Law School in 1988.

Mentions in print

  • In a book written by a client for whom Gary (together with two other lawyers, a solicitor/colleague and a barrister) had successfully conducted substantial litigation, Gary was described, along with the other two lawyers, as being, in terms of character, a giant, and an honest, honourable man.
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