Recent Work Highlights

Acting for the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the successful High Court trial of a multi-million pound international arbitration dispute. The Government successfully resisted enforcement of an award in the UK. Representing a local politician in a defamation matter against a Member of Parliament and obtaining a written apology. Completing the negotiations […]

Origins of Gibson & Co.

On the scaffold, minutes before he was beheaded for his part in the 1715 Rebellion, the Earl of Derwentwater turned to his lawyer and friend Jasper Gibson and asked him to draft his Last Will and Testament. Gibson, attending the rebel leader in his last hours, had nothing to write with. Taking a sharp instrument […]