Gideon Roseman is a Commercial Chancery litigator. He advises in contentious and non-contentious partnership matters, representing both firms and LLPs as well as individual partners and members, including professional practices, such as solicitors, financial advisers and recruitment consultants and property developers. He has significant experience of high value and complex litigation in Court and arbitration. He is regularly instructed to attend mediations.
He has appeared as sole counsel in a number of successful appeals in the Court of Appeal in relation to both partnership and shareholder disputes.
He also specialises in commercial litigation, commercial fraud, insolvency, shareholders’ disputes, property litigation (domestic and international), professional negligence and wills and trust disputes.
He has particular expertise in relation to worldwide and domestic freezing orders, as well as other interlocutory prohibitory and mandatory injunctions.
He has acted in a number of committal applications, typically those arising out of breaches of freezing injunctions and ancillary disclosure orders, including appeals to the Court of Appeal.
Ranked in Band 1 in Partnership in Chambers UK 2024.
Ranked in Tier 2 in Partnership in Legal 500 2024.
Ranked in Band 4 in Commercial in Chambers UK 2024.
Private Client
Gideon has experience in dealing with all aspects of litigation involving estates and trusts and claims made under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
Reported Cases:
- Acting in a probate claim which involves issues of testamentary capacity and want of knowledge and approval (led by Eason Rajah QC).
- Acting for the Claimants in a multi-million-pound probate dispute involving issues of lack of capacity and knowledge and approval.
- Advising in relation to payments into court involving Administrators and Trustees of Trusts and Estates.
- Advising in relation to the construction of Wills and Trust Deeds in respect of clauses concerned with the payment of foreign taxes.
- He appeared in the High Court (Chancery Division) on behalf of the estate of George Best and was successful in obtaining an interim injunction to restrain the sale of various chattels at a Bonhams’ auction. Acting for the surviving spouse in an Inheritance Act claim, raising issues of domicile, a polygamous marriage, breach of fiduciary duty and the equity of exoneration. There is also a separate claim against the estate concerning the matrimonial home, which raises issues of breach of fiduciary duty and the equity of exoneration.
- Gideon appeared in the Principal Registry of Family Division (Probate) in a matter concerning the estate of the fashion designer Alexander McQueen.
Recommendations
Qualifications
- Bar Vocational Course (Outstanding), BPP Law School
- LLM (First Class), Hughes Hall, Cambridge
- LLB (Hons), University of Bristol
- Inner Temple Prize for BVC performance [2007]
- Exhibitioner, Inner Temple [2005]
- Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Scholarship, Inner Temple [2005]
- M. Burnett Prize, Hughes Hall, Cambridge [2005]
- Highest First in Intellectual Property, University of Bristol [2004]
- Blackstone Press Prize, University of Bristol [2002]
Appointments
- Association of Partnership Practitioners (Sub-committee Member)
Associations & Memberships
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
- Chancery Bar Association
Publications
Speaking Engagements
Gideon has given talks to firms of solicitors and accountants (including Maurice Turnor Gardner, Fox Williams LLP, Addleshaw Goddard LLP and Smith and Williamson) on company, LLP and Partnership issues.
Gideon Roseman is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. He is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 53971] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [2360/067] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. He is registered for VAT under the reference 984482375.
