Nuno Santos-Costa
Director
Nuno Santos-Costa is joint Senior Partner and the
Channel Island head of Dispute
Resolution for Collas Crill.
Nuno specialises in all aspects of
commercial litigation, including trust cases, fraud and asset
tracing claims and heavyweight commercial disputes. He has appeared
in many substantial Jersey cases including acting as senior Jersey
counsel for the first defendant in the Alhamrani trusts litigation,
Jersey's biggest ever litigation dispute.
Nuno is also a Crown Advocate and has appeared in numerous
high-profile criminal cases on behalf of the Attorney General. He
was appointed a relief magistrate in 2009.
The Legal 500 2011 describes Nuno as an 'efficient and
impressive advocate', while Chambers and Partners UK 2001 says he
is 'an experienced lawyer with the broad shoulders needed to take
on the heaviest cases'.
Nuno qualified as an English barrister in 1984 and as an
advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey in 1992. He is a member of
COMBAR (the Commercial Bar Association) and the Fraud
Network.
He is a door tenant at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, a set of
barristers' chambers in London. Nuno is also a member of the Law
Society Disciplinary Panel both in Jersey and in Guernsey.