Peter Gray, the suspended Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Djibouti partner found in March to have “deliberately misled” the court, is to escalate his appeal against the decision to the Court of Appeal after a High Court judge denied him permission to challenge the decision yesterday.

Mr Justice Flaux swiftly rejected Gray’s appeal yesterday (14 April), denying an application made on Gray’s behalf by Fountain Court Chambers counsel Mark Simpson QC.