William Redgrave

William is a Partner in the firm. He is both a Jersey Advocate and an English Barrister, with over 25 years’ experience of litigation and a focus on courtroom advocacy.  He practised at the English Bar for 13 years, appearing in court every week, before moving to work in Jersey in 2008. William is also a director of Baker Regulatory Services Limited.

William has been referred to in Chambers and Partners as ‘measured, even-handed and brilliant.’

William has appeared in many notable recent commercial and trust cases in Jersey. He leads the Baker & Partners team representing a bank-owned trust company in Crociani v Crociani, one of the biggest breach of trust cases in recent years in Jersey, which came to trial in 2017. The trial lasted three months. The litigation has given rise to numerous judgments on various aspects of Jersey trusts law and procedure.

William has extensive experience of obtaining creative and effective freezing and disclosure orders in support of both Jersey and overseas litigation.

He acts for an overseas trustee in bankruptcy in litigation concerning the use that can be made outside Jersey of confidential information obtained by an office-holder under compulsion in Jersey. This decision is of importance in the context of cross-border insolvency.

He has frequently advised and assisted financial services businesses and regulators in Jersey on a variety of regulatory matters. He has conducted regulatory investigations on behalf of both regulated businesses and the regulator.

He also prosecutes and defends in serious criminal cases including fraud. He was appointed Crown Advocate in 2012, entitling him to prosecute serious crimes in the Royal Court.

He appears both for the Jersey Law Society and for practitioners in lawyers’ disciplinary matters.

He has advised and acted for customers in bank swap mis-selling cases, and in cases involving unauthorised investments.