We offer expert legal advice and representation with barristers who specialise in Chancery and Commercial law.
Chambers has extensive, collective expertise and considerable practical experience of how multiple legal disciplines often overlap when applied to the actual issues our clients face. We also offer highly skilled barristers who practice in areas that fall outside the scope of traditional Chancery law.
Our friendly, professional Clerks’ Room is the principal port of call for anyone who would like to instruct a barrister at Ten Old Square.
Our team of clerks will advise on the expertise and availability of the barristers in Chambers and discuss the most suitable fee structures for your case. They will do this in a speedy and responsive manner, keeping you fully informed throughout the process.
Our clerks offer a very high quality service combined with a down-to-earth and collaborative approach.
If you would like to discuss a specific case, arrange a meeting or receive further information about any of our barristers, areas of expertise or about the way we work in general, please contact our clerks.
Our excellent legal services extend beyond case work to the provision of remote talks, complimentary training events and programmes to support our clients’ continuing competence requirements.
Further details about this can be found on our events page or by contacting Emily Overett.
Ten Old Square is a professional, friendly and forward-looking set.
We are renowned for delivering an outstanding level of service and welcome applications from like-minded individuals.
Ten Old Square is an award-winning set of Chancery barristers’.
Chambers contains some of the finest and brightest lawyers currently practising in all the current Chancery disciplines. Our Chambers comprises of talented barristers whose expertise meets and exceeds the demands of those who approach us needing legal representation and require expert advice of the very highest calibre.
5th May 2021
James MacDougald discusses the case of The Donkey Sanctuary v. Bacchus [2020] WTLR 1450, a recent High Court decision on post-death deeds of variation, the circumstances in which the executors of a dead person can vary that person’s entitlement on an earlier death, and when a decision of that kind will be ultra vires or […]
28th Apr 2021
The circumstances where a trustee in bankruptcy can recover a payment or a preference that is made by a bankrupt between the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the making of the bankruptcy order differ surprisingly from those which pertain to a payment or preference that is made before the petition or which pertain to […]
21st Apr 2021
Georgia Bedworth talks about Re ACC, the recent Court of Protection case which gives definitive guidance on important issues such as the scope of deputies’ authority in relation to paying for legal advice, and dealing with conflicts of interest which arise when a professional deputy wants to instruct his own firm to give legal advice […]
14th Apr 2021
Leon Pickering discusses the new Practice Direction 1A on vulnerable witnesses and parties, in force from 6 April this year. He raises his concerns about including confidential medical information in public court orders and considers best practice under the new regime.
7th Apr 2021
Adam Stewart-Wallace talks about the recent decision in Procter v Procter [2021] EWCA Civ 167, a case which considered whether trustees had been able to create an tenancy in favour of a partnership in which they were partners, in the absence of any written tenancy agreement.
31st Mar 2021
Sam Laughton talks about the recent decision in Patel v Barlows [2021] 4 WLR 6, in which he successfully argued for the existence of a partnership and a beneficial interest in a Quistclose trust, in relation to a real estate joint venture. HHJ Mithani QC also gave detailed guidance as to the application of the Berkeley Applegate jurisdiction, […]
16th Mar 2021
Richard Dew talks about Rokkan v Rokkan [2021] EWHC 481 (Ch), a case concerning domicile, Norweigian probate law, and the principles of ademption.
