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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.
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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.
16th Jun 2021
Simon Taube QC appears before Privy Council in ITG Ltd and others (Respondents) v Fort Trustees Ltd and another (Appellants) (Guernsey) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is considering whether the assets of an insolvent trust should be distributed on a pari passu basis between former and current trustees or between the same as […]
10th May 2021
James Egan, led by Rupert D’Cruz QC, successfully defends Kazakhstan Kagazy JSC in the latest saga of the Kagazy v Zhunus litigation James Egan, led by Rupert D’Cruz QC of Littleton Chambers, has successfully defended Kazakhstan Kagazy JSC (“KK JSC”) against numerous claims by Harbour Litigation Fund (“Harbour”) in relation to the c.US $300m judgment […]
8th Mar 2021
Richard Dew successfully defends a claim asserting that Norwegian inheritance applies to the estate of an individual who had lived in Norway but died domiciled in Wales – and at the same time shows that the earlier decision in Banks v Natwest Bank regarding the principles of ademption (which he also appeared in) did not […]
10th Feb 2021
Sam Laughton recently acted for the successful claimant in Patel v Barlows Solicitors (A Firm) [2021] 4 WLR 6. After a 5-day trial in the Chancery Division, it was held that an abortive joint venture for the purchase and sale of properties was a “business” within the meaning of the Partnership Act 1890. In the alternative, it was held that the monies advanced […]
22nd Sep 2020
Paul Stafford recently appeared with Fenner Moeran QC in a trial in the Chancery Division before Falk J in Wynne-Finch & Ors v Natural Resources Body for Wales [2020] EWHC 1924 (Ch) (27 July 2020). The decision has already aroused much interest and is the first for some years on the subject of manorial mineral […]
27th Aug 2020
Richard Dew recently appeared before Chief Master Marsh in Cotterell and Cutsem v Allendale and Beaumont [2020] EWHC 2234. The case clarified an important point of principle for practitioners—whether section 57 of the Trustee Act 1925 permits the court to vary trustees’ management or administration powers generally, or whether a specific transaction must be envisaged. […]
6th Aug 2020
Simon Taube QC recently appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of the successful appellant in Lehtimäki and others v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33. The Court restored the decision at first instance of Vos J, holding that the court had an inherent jurisdiction to order a member of a charitable company, as a fiduciary, to […]
