Senior Management Team

Greg Cox

Managing Partner and CEO

Manchester

Areas of Expertise:

  • Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Legal Costs
  • Regulatory
  • Senior Management Team

Greg Cox is CEO of Simpson Millar as well as being one of the leading experts in legal costs and funding issues, a Solicitor-Advocate (appearing in the Higher Courts), a High Court Assessor (sitting in Appeals to the High Court) a Mediator and a member of the Bar Council Remuneration Committee.

Greg has particular expertise in law firm acquisition and mergers, law firm regulation and shaping law firms to respond to changes in the legal and regulatory landscape.

Greg has acted in many of the leading cases about legal costs over the last 20 years including in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. He is regularly instructed in appeals on points of principle or in test cases. Greg is a contributing author of the Law Society Litigation Funding Handbook and speaks and lectures regularly and has been instructed to appear in the High Court as an Expert Witness.

Memberships

Higher Courts (Civil Proceedings) Rights of Audience, High Court Costs Assessor, member of the Bar Council Remuneration Committee.

Interests outside of work

3 children take up most of his spare time, otherwise music (guitar, fretted instruments generally) and sports

As a Practitioner

Cases Dealt With

2021

Lexlaw v Zuberi

(Test case on Damages Based Agreements) EWCA Civ 16

2012

Coventry v Lawrence

(No 3) UKSC 2012/0076 (Compatibility of Access to Justice Costs regime with Article 6 and/or A1P1 rights)

2016

Qader v Esure

EWCA Civ 1109

2014

Denton v TH White

(Test case on relief from sanctions) (for the Bar Council as intervenor) [2014] EWCA Civ 906

2009

Barr & others –v- Biffa Waste

EWHC 1033 (TCC)

2007

Lamont –v- Burton

EWCA Civ 429

2006

Rogers –v- Merthyr Tydfil

EWCA Civ 1134 (Court of Appeal Test Case on ATE insurance)

2004

Burridge –v- Airwork

EWCA Civ 459

2005

Tyndall –v- Battersea Dogs Home

(LTL 3/10/2005)

2003

Hollins –v- Russell and others

(test case on Conditional Fee Agreements) [2003] EWCA Civ 718

As an Assessor:

Cases Dealt With

2004

Aaron –v- Shelton

3 All ER 561.

2006

Jenkins –v- Young Brothers

EWHC 151 (QB)

2007

Birmingham City Council –v- Crook

EWHC Civ 1415

2009

Oliver –v- Whipps Cross

EWHC 1104 (QB)

2011

LSC –v- F, S & K

EWHC 0145

2011

Manning v Begg

EWHC 3054 (QB)

2012

Kremen v Kendastar

EWHC 0512 (QB)

2014

Blankley v Central Manchester

EWHC 168 (QB)

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