Ahead of the 2016 International Trusts & Private Client Forum in Guernsey, Gilead Cooper QC shares his personal pen portrait
1) What are the key recent developments and stories affecting your industry this year, particularly in relation to the topics being covered at the conference? Do any amusing stories/facts/incidences come to mind in relation to the topics?
Charlotte Proudman, LinkedIn sexism story.
2) What do you joke about with your colleagues? In jokes, bugbears etc.?
Mostly, we joke about other colleagues.
3) Who are the key public figures who affect your industry? Any funny stories about them?
Key public figures: Lord Neuberger; Chris Grayling; almost any mention of Mr Justice Peter Smith usually raises a laugh.
Amal Clooney (hardly a “key” figure, but in the news all the time)
4) Please provide us with a surprising fact about yourself!
I am in fact over 6ft tall. I also lie about my height.