Martyn is currently a consultant with Lane-Smith and Shindler LLP in Manchester. Prior to joining, he spent a number of years with Barclays Bank Trust Company taking on a variety of roles, including heading the company's internal legal department.
Martyn has had over 40 years’ experience of the administration of estates and trusts and has taught both subjects for Barclays Bank Trust Company, the Chartered Institute of Bankers (in London, Jersey and Nassau) and also for Moorgate Polytechnic. He has also worked as an examiner for the Chartered Institute of Bankers’ estates and trusts examinations. He has written, contributed to and edited several books on estates and trusts issues, the latest being Risk and Negligence in Wills, Estates and Trusts. He also provides the chapter on Regulation and Money Laundering for Tolley's Administration of Trusts. He has been an editor of the Wills and Trusts Law Reports since their inception in 2000 and was one of the original editors of the Trust Quarterly Review.
Martyn is a tutor for the STEP Foundation Certificate for England and Wales and has contributed to the revision of the course manual for this paper. He has also updated areas of the STEP Trust Creation: Law and Practice course manual.
He is a former Vice President of The Association of Corporate Trustees and a former Deputy Chairman of STEP.