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Kevin Goldie
Advocate - Kevin has a wide client base but works principally in the field of Litigation.
Kevin was called to the Manx Bar in 2000 and undertakes a wide variety of work in his very diverse practice.
Kevin's principal area of work is in the field of Civil litigation.
Kevin undertakes a significant amount of personal injury work both for claimants and for defendants and their insurers, including dealing with a number of very high value claims.
Kevin also has considerable experience in litigation dealing with other issues including:
Mental health - receivership etc.;
Contentious estates (challenging and defending wills, protecting charitable beneficiaries etc.);
Contentious property (boundary disputes, landlord/ tenant matters, challenging covenants etc.);
Business operation disputes (quasi-partnership disputes, business termination etc.);
Personal injury claims (both claimant and defendant work)
In respect of commercial law, before training as an Advocate Kevin obtained a Masters degree for his studies of comparative anti-money laundering legislation and has advised a number of institutions on compliance issues and been involved in high value corporate transactions in respect of due diligence.
White-collar crime:
Kevin has considerable experience of corporate and regulatory criminal defence work, and contentious issues arising out of other statutory obligations. Kevin also supervises the criminal department and has a breadth of experience within the field of criminal law.
Notable reported/online cases he has worked on include:
Commercial:
December 2007 – acted as Isle of Man counsel for the purchaser in a management buy out of a major regulated service provider.
Trust/ Wills:
Application of Executors for interpretation of unclear terms of a will
PETITION OF BARRY & OTRS RE SALT / 29 October 2008
Counsel for charitable beneficiaries opposing an application for financial provision by family members excluded from a will.
PETITION OF WILTCHER RE GILL / 07 March 2006
Counsel for executor applying to cancel a beneficiary’s life interest and sell property owned by tenants in common.
PETITION OF QUINN RE SAMPSON / 17 May 2006
Contentious Property
Acting for a land owner in a boundary dispute.
Peel v Johnson / 15 April 2010
Financial regulation etc:
Counsel for the Isle of Man Law Society in an application for Court direction on the application of counter money-laundering measures by Advocates’ firms.
APPEAL OF CULVERHOUSE / 14 June 2005
Counsel for an interested party in various applications/Appeals/Petitions of Doleance (Judicial Review) made in respect of Letters of Request received by the Attorney General for evidence gathering assistance to be provided to a foreign investigatory body.
HAFNER AND OTHERS
17 July 2006 part 1;
17 July 2006 part 2 ;
04 December 2007;
06 April 2006;
05 January 2009 part 2;
05 January 2009 part 1;
11 November 2009
Criminal
Application for a stay of an exclusion order pending appeal
ARMIENEOS v R / 28 October 2003
Appeal against sentence
McGIVERN v R / 06 January 2004
Appeal against conviction – delay as abuse of process
LAWRENCE v R / 28 July 2004
Opposing an application for joinder
R v JOHNSON & OTRS / 16 April 2007
Appeal against sentence
WOOD v R / 30 October 2002
Exclusion of evidence applications
R v LAWLER & OTR / 04 April 2003
Miscellaneous:
Action for account – preliminary issue regarding interpretation of contract
INTEGRITY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS v UTOPIA / 18 December 2008
Appeal against decision not to set aside judgment
APPEAL OF TAYLOR / 02 July 2002
Petitions relating to a contempt of court, vexatious litigant standing and interpretation of a will
PETITION OF MANN AND OTHERS RE SPENGLER / 21 March 2005
Personal injury claim
KEWISH v IOM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL LTD / 10 January 2006
Acting for an interested party in the Public Inquiry into the Care of Young People in the Isle of Man – May 2006
Inquiry Report
Also within the Litigation team:
Jonathan Wild - team head
Kathryn Clough
Keiron Murray
kgoldie@callinwild.com