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Overview
Greg is a commercial and chancery practitioner.
He is instructed for trials, applications, costs and case management hearings, conferences, and alternative dispute resolution including mediation. His paper-based practice spans the full range of civil work – providing advice/opinions, and drafting statements of case, applications and contracts. He is regularly sought after for further work by the solicitors who instruct him.
Prior to the Bar, Greg worked for a multinational retail business, up to senior management level. He is a pharmacist, and has developed national and international policy in pharmacy, with particular expertise in staffing, patient safety, healthcare policy and organisational campaigns. His experience also extends to the public sector, working in the senior legal team for a national regulator as Head of Data Protection and Information Governance, and Data Protection Officer. His work has involved the development of statute, initiating and conducting litigation, and drafting detailed legal advice and documents for internal and external use.
Greg’s work has influenced parliamentary discourse and government and regulatory policy.
Commercial and Chancery Areas of Practice
Greg’s practice covers the following areas:
- Consumer finance and general consumer law
- Commercial disputes
- Contract law
- Data protection and privacy / information law
- Property law (for example: landlord and tenant, boundary and easement disputes, trespass, nuisance)
- Company law
- Wills and probate
- Pharmacy and medicines law
Publications
Matters of Law Arising in Motor Finance Secret Commission / Unfair Relationship Cases
Published 6 April 2025
Three key considerations, related to the drug supply process, raised by The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Initially published 20 November 2024; revised 20 January 2025 to comment on the draft bill as it stood on that date.
Court of Appeal finds for claimants in landmark motor finance / secret commission judgment
Published 29 October 2024
21 Handy Tips for Pupil Barristers
Published 27 August 2024
https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/08/21-handy-tips-for-pupil-barristers/
Baxter v Doble & Anor [2023] EWHC 486 (KB)
Published 19 April 2023
Notable Cases
Wrench v FirstRand Bank [2024] EWCA Civ 1282 (Court of Appeal; advisory capacity). A secret commission / unfair relationship claim.
Appointments
Attorney General’s Junior Junior Scheme
Associations
Northern Circuit (Easter 2023 election)The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn (Member)
British Chartered Institute for IT (Member)
Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Member and Faculty Fellow)
Education
LLM Master of Laws (Distinction), University of Law
Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction), University of Law
MPharm Master of Pharmacy (First Class Hons)
Data Protection Practitioner
Freedom of Information Practitioner
CIPP/E Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe)
CIPM Certified Information Privacy Manager
Awards
James Crouch Scholarship (Gray’s Inn)
Advocacy Scholar (University of Law)
Various awards from pharmaceutical companies (e.g. Student of the Year; Best Overall Student)
Prescribed Information
Greg Lawton is a practising barrister, regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). The information held by the BSB about him can be found here.
Greg’s clerks will provide no obligation quotations for all legal services that he provides. It is most common for Greg to undertake Court and Tribunal work for a brief fee plus refresher days, although fixed fees are available. For paperwork, Greg most commonly charges at an hourly rate, although fixed fees are available. Greg will typically return paperwork within 10-14 days, however professional commitments, complexity and volume of documentation can affect these approximate timescales.
