Top trial lawyer moves to Hatstone

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Advocate Mike Preston has joined Hatstone Lawyers as a Group Partner.

Advocate Preston enhances the firm's existing litigation and dispute resolution team, and brings the number of partners to six and the total number of qualified lawyers in the firm to 32.

Advocate Preston is a highly experienced trial lawyer, specialising in trust and commercial dispute resolution as well as having appeared in several of the major criminal trials of recent years.

He qualified as an English Solicitor in 1991 before returning to Jersey in 1993. He was sworn in as an Advocate of the Royal Court in 1999, becoming a Partner in his previous Jersey practice a year later. Mike is a member of the Advocates and Solicitors Examination Board and also sits as a Deputy Chair of the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal.

Group Partner Simon Vivian said: “We are absolutely delighted to welcome Mike on board as a Group Partner. He has built a reputation as one of Jersey’s leading trial lawyers in trust disputes and high-profile criminal cases. This appointment marks the next step in our development.”