Naomi Winston’s busy practice covers litigation, drafting and advisory work with a focus on partnership, Court of Protection and probate matters. She is ranked in the legal directories for both partnership and Court of Protection work.
Ranked in Band 1 in Partnership and Band 3 for Court of Protection: Property and Affairs by Chambers UK 2022.
Private Client
Naomi is frequently instructed in contentious probate and family provision claims and regularly deals with disputes about administration of wills and trusts and wills (including removal of trustees and personal representatives and breaches of duties). She also deals with associated professional negligence issues. Naomi has particular expertise in dealing with those estates or trusts which contain an interest in a partnership or assets used by a partnership.
Recent Cases:
- Acting for the beneficiaries under a will to recover the assets of a substantial estate taken by the administrator.
- Acting for an executor in a professional negligence claim against his solicitors who caused an overpayment to be made to beneficiaries in a potentially insolvent estate.
- Advising executors (including a Canadian executor) in an estate of an executor of a former Lloyd’s name, whose estate included inheritance from that former Lloyd’s name.
- Acting for a co-executor/next of kin in a dispute about the exhumation and reburial of a body.
Reported Cases:
- TWM Trust Corporation Ltd v Attorney General [2010] All ER (D) 139 (May): Acting for an unincorporated association claiming that it could take a gift in a will to an association with an altered name as the new association carried on the same purposes.
Recommendations
Qualifications
- LLB (First), Leicester University
Associations & Memberships
- Association of Partnership Practitioners
- Chancery Bar Association
Naomi Winston is a self-employed, independent barrister whose practice is governed by the Code of Conduct of the Bar of England and Wales. She is regulated by The Bar Standards Board [Bar Ref 50785] and is fully insured with the Bar Mutual Indemnity Fund [BMIF Ref 2360/061] to provide legal services, please refer to the BMIF website for full details of the world-wide cover provided. She is registered for VAT under the reference 938328691.