Event Date: 20th November 2019, 18:00 to 21:00
A topical and practical case study looking at how to use clauses in an LLP/Partnership Agreement to best effect when partners leave the firm (and, if necessary, how one might re-draft such clauses). The areas explored include: • Hotel California/waiting room clauses • Anti-team move clauses • Forfeiture and liquidated damages clauses • Restrictive covenants […]
21st Oct 2019
Introduce yourself to representatives of Ten Old Square, who will be attending the Pupillage Fair 2019. Our barristers will be there to answer your questions and introduce you to our areas of practice and pupillage opportunity. ‘The Pupillage Fair is the only recruitment fair run by the Bar, for the Bar of […]
Event Date: 18th November 2019, 18:15 to 21:00
A seminar covering new developments under the Inheritance Act 1975, including the recent Court of Appeal decision in Cowan v Foreman. CHAIRED BY Sidney Ross: Author, Inheritance Act Claims, Sweet and Maxwell, first published 1993, 4th (current) edition 2017 SPEAKERS James Kirby: ‘Trusts, Testamentary Freedom and Inheritance Act Claims’ Richard Dew: ‘Applications Out of Time and […]
Event Date: 14th November 2019, 08:00 to 09:30
Richard Dew, Georgia Bedworth and Leon Pickering discussed recent developments in relation to gift-giving and the Court of Protection. Georgia revisited IHT mitigation in the light of PBC v JMA to consider whether it offers a coherent new approach and Leon considered recent cases concerning gifts by attorneys and deputies, including where they have been […]
10th Oct 2019
We are delighted to share our Chambers UK Bar 2020 directory rankings. Ranked as Band 2 in Court of Protection: Property & Affairs; “Ten Old Square offers a broad expertise in property and affairs matters, drawing on the set’s recognised strength in private client work. Members are particularly well regarded for their handling of Court […]
4th Oct 2019
Eason Rajah KC, Leon Pickering and Bryony Robinson have successfully acted for the current 8th Nazim of Hyderabad. The judgment of the £35m legal dispute, which originated in 1948, can be found here. Ten Old Square were instructed by Paul Hewitt of Withers LLP. An article about the case in the Guardian can be found here. […]
Event Date: 30th October 2019, 18:30 to 00:00
At this informal event, junior members of Chambers discussed how to deal with litigants who lack capacity across the spectrum of civil litigation. TOPICS When does someone lack capacity to litigate? Litigation Friends and the procedural rules Authorisation to act from the Court of Protection Compromising civil claims involving protected parties CHAIRED BY James Poole […]