Angus Young

Angus is a practical, approachable and business-minded dispute resolution solicitor with extensive experience resolving commercial property, business and media disputes acting for both individuals and businesses.

Angus’s growing business & commercial property practice includes acting for both tenants and landlords, advising in respect of partnership issues and contract disputes, providing comprehensive data protection & GDPR advice and managing ongoing tenant and landlord relationships. Angus is comfortable adapting to work with clients’ existing corporate setups and has a good rapport with in-house lawyers and PR professionals.

Angus also has a great deal of experience in defamation and privacy matters acting for and advising both claimants and defendants whose private information has been misused or who have found themselves the victim of untrue allegations. He regularly advises individuals and companies ahead of threatened publication of (usually) negative or unhelpful media reports.

Examples of Recent Work

• Angus has successfully advised and acted for commercial landlords across a range of issues including dilapidations, renewing commercial tenancies, forfeiture, trespass rent recovery and tenant evictions;
• He has worked on some of the more notorious twitter libel cases including McAlpine v Bercow and regularly advises clients in respect of online and social media publications;
• He has brought a number of successful privacy actions on behalf of clients and recently acted for a vulnerable young woman whose information was inadvertently published; and
• Angus recently worked collaboratively with the in-house team at an international company to successfully resolve a health and safety dispute with potentially dire reputational consequences.

Professional History

After training at Carter-Ruck Angus was admitted to the roll in 2014. He joined Slater and Gordon’s highly ranked Media, Libel and Privacy team before arriving at Grant Saw in early 2017.