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GRIFFITHS: FUNDING KEY ISSUE FOR 2018

Article published in Racing Post 29/01/18 Issue 10,773 – racingpost.com   Robert Griffiths, interim chairman of the GBGB, told last night’s annual awards gala that funding is the biggest issueRead More…

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LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION – CO-ORDINATES NOT RIVALS

by Robert Griffiths – June 2016 – London Business Matters #136 When it was once suggested to Groucho Marx that he should do something for posterity he famously replied: “What hasRead More…

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ROBERT GRIFFITHS QC PROFILE

Robert Griffiths QC Profile … The chambers will specialise in domestic, commercial and international law with a core base in London, consisting of leading QCs and other senior counsel fromRead More…

Sport and Law Symposium 2013
SPORTS AND LAW SYMPOSIUM

SPORTS AND LAW SYMPOSIUM Robert Griffiths is a practising barrister, a Middle Temple Bencher and joint Head of Chambers at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. He is a commercial planning andRead More…

Robert Griffiths QC
FAIR PLAY, CRICKET AND THE LAW

FAIR PLAY, CRICKET AND THE LAW As a young man I played sport. I now practise law. There is a connection. The play element in sport is obvious. It isRead More…

New Law journal
DARRELL HAIR CASE

As everyone knows, the umpire’s decision is final. Isn’t it? Given the furore at The Oval, the question merits further analysis. The distinction between the operational rules of sport andRead More…

The Times, Articles, Publications, Robert Griffiths QC
COURT BATTLE – A LITTLE LOCAL DIFFICULTY

Robert Griffiths, QC, tells Frances Gibb why he is philosophical about the outcome of a costly court battle View Times Article here. … The story of a top QC losingRead More…

BAGOL Flyer 2016
BRITISH AMERICAN GROUP OF LAWYERS – SPEECH

THE NEW UK COMMERCIAL MEGA-COURT AND OTHER UK COMMERCIAL LITIGATION INITIATIVES

BAGOL Flyer 2016
LITIGATION V ARBITRATION – SPEECH

Litigation v Arbitration … … “The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself” Charles Dickens in Bleak House — “Going to court is justRead More…

SAESCADA PARTNERSHIP

One of the country’s leading QC’s has agreed to work with and become a Non Executive Director at the innovative banking platform provider Saescada. Robert Griffiths QC is a seniorRead More…

London Business Matters
SOUTH AFRICA – BUSINESS AND SPORT

This is an edited version of Robert Griffiths QC’s speech in Johannesburg at a reception hosted by JP Morgan last month during the LCCI/MCCI trade visit to South Africa. …Read More…

London Chamber of Commerce, Robert Griffiths QC Speech
SOUTH AFRICA INDUSTRY TRADE MISSION – SPEECH

Speech in Johannesburg as Leader of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Trade Mission to South Africa … The French philosopher, Blaise Pascal once said, “the supreme accomplishment ofRead More…

Wales Online, Robert Griffiths QC
FLYING THE FLAG FOR WALES

Article by Robert Llewellyn-Jones It is less than two and a half hours on the train from Cardiff so it seems natural that some of the most highly talented peopleRead More…

London Business Matters
WORKING LUNCH – TECHNIQUE AND ROOTS

Peter Bishop meets with Robert Griffiths QC The Paternoster Chop House is equidistant between the London Chamber’s main office in Queen Street, and 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, the chambers ofRead More…

Law Society of England and Wales
DEMOCRACY AND JUDICIAL REVIEW

Lecture Given by Robert Griffiths QC on Democracy and Judicial Review at the Law Society The theme of my lecture can be put in the form of two questions a. AreRead More…

Westminster Energy Environment & Transport Forum
SHALE GAS – SPEECH

Shale Gas Conference for the Westminster Energy and Transport Forum … Lawyers, especially Queen’s Counsel as a breed, do not normally show a propensity for answering difficult questions simply orRead More…

Lawyer Monthly, Robert Griffiths QC interview
PLANNING LAW

Concluding our feature on Planning Law, Lawyer Monthly  speaks to W Robert Griffiths QC, a practising Queen’s Council and Joint Head of Chambers of 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square. Robert specialisesRead More…

The Cricketer
NO WINNERS FROM CAIRNS TRIAL

New Zealander’s court “hell” to continue  when he faces Modi in civil case. The Cricketer, Ivo Tennant A quarter of a century or so ago, when he was a youngRead More…

Western Mail, Robert Griffiths QC, interview
THE BIG INTERVIEW – ROBERT GRIFFITHS QC

QC Robert Griffiths on how to thrive on a sticky wicket; THE BIG INTERVIEW Robert Llewellyn Jones talks one to of the UK’s leading commercial QCs, Welshman Robert Griffiths, onRead More…

Sunday Times, Lascelles House, Robert Griffiths QC, holiday home
LASCELLES HOUSE IN BARBADOS

Lascelles House, on a Barbados sugar plantation, was built on the slave trade, but today plays host to West Indian cricket greats – and is yours to rent for 1,250Read More…

Sunday Telegraph
GLORIOUS SUMMERS & DISCONTENTS, MIKE ATHERTON

And so it has come to this. A farce whose origins sprang, as Malcolm Speed, the chief executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), said at the time, from aRead More…

The Times, Articles, Publications, Robert Griffiths QC
LAWYER OF THE WEEK

City Law, Linda Tsang ….   Robert Griffiths, QC, of 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, acted for Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire who claimed racial discrimination and racial harassment by theRead More…

The Daily Telegraph, Hair court case
LEADERS DUCK THE ISSUE OVER ZIMBABWE DEBACLE

Watching Brief, Donald Trelford Two remarks stuck in my craw after last week’s abortive meeting between ministers and the England and Wales Cricket Board in their latest forlorn effort to getRead More…