Hatstone Lawyers has appointed Advocate Mike Preston as a Group Partner.
Mike will join the litigation and dispute resolution team, and brings the number of partners at the firm to six, and the total number of qualified lawyers to 32.
Mike is a highly experienced and well-respected trial lawyer, specialising in trust and commercial dispute resolution as well as having appeared in several of the major criminal trials of recent years.
He qualified as an English Solicitor in 1991 before returning to Jersey in 1993. He was sworn in as an Advocate of the Royal Court in 1999, becoming a Partner at Voisin a year later. Mike is a member of the Advocates and Solicitors Examination Board and also sits as a Deputy Chair of the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal.