Chancery: Traditional
London (Bar)
3 years ranked
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Gregor Hogan has a busy commercial and chancery practice, with a particular interest in commercial litigation, contentious trusts and probate (onshore and offshore), trusts issues in financial remedy proceedings, company and insolvency, and civil fraud. He regularly appears in the High Court, where he is instructed in his own right on interlocutory matters, and in the County Court.
Gregor has acted for a range of clients, including trustees, high-net-worth individuals, insolvency practitioners, national charities and international companies, and in offshore jurisdictions including Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, BVI and the UAE. He was admitted to The British Virgin Islands Bar in July 2023.
Gregor is also regularly involved in cases involving the DIFC and the Middle East generally, and he is admitted as a Part II Practitioner before the DIFC Courts. He is also instructed on a number of DIFC-LCIA arbitrations involving complex commercial issues and questions of jurisdiction
After completing pupillage in 2017, Gregor spent seven months in the Contentious Trusts and Succession group at law firm Withers, during which he worked on a number of Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims involving dynastic and high net worth estates as well as advising offshore trustees and charities on a range of contentious and non-contentious matters.
Before joining Chambers, Gregor was a Lecturer in Constitutional, EU and Administrative Law at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.
Gregor is the contributing author of the Arbitration chapter in the recent DIFC Courts Practice publication. He also a contributing author for the 11th edition of Tudor on Charities.
Call: 2016
Tudor on Charities, 11th Ed. (2022, Sweet & Maxwell), co-author with William Henderson and Jonathan Fowles
New Law Journal, 19 August 2020: Unparalleled Circumstances
Trusts & Trustee, 22 January 2020: Legal and practical issues arising from Lehtimaki v Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK)
Knect365, Issue 1, 20 December 2018 pp 29-30: Defaulting Trustees: A Broad Brush Approach to Interest?
New Law Journal, 26 October 2018: Keeping it in the family?
Trusts & Trustee, Vol 24, Issue 2, March 2018, pp.212-215: Mezhrom Bank v Pugchev [2017] EWHC 2426 (Ch)
Freezing Orders: A Return to Orthodoxy?
FM Capital Partners v Marino & Others [2018] EWHC 2889 (Comm)
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Gregor Hogan has expertise both domestically and offshore. He is an experienced junior, acting unled in high-value trusts and estates disputes.
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Gregor is technically very good and has very good knowledge, not just on contentious trusts and probate but family work as well. When you have a dispute touching many bases, he's great.
Gregor is a really strong, confident advocate. He's good at rolling his sleeves up and is also really diligent and super hard-working. He's also really bright.
Gregor Hogan is very client-friendly. He is easy to talk to and happy to get involved with the detail. He goes the extra mile to find the right legal argument and goes into the thorny and difficult problems and questions.
Gregor picks up facts very quickly and retains them when you come back months later.
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