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.
10th May 2015
Before: Mrs Justice Proudman Citation: [2015] EWHC 1457 (Ch) Equitable mistake concerning trusts; difference between ignorance, mistake and disappointed expectations. Matthew Slater (instructed by the Solicitor and General Counsel to HM Revenue and Customs) for the Fifth Defendant. Click here to read more.
6th May 2015
Before: Lord Justice Jackson, Lady Justice Black and Sir David Keene Citation: [2015] EWCA Civ 447; WTLR 1039, [2015] Fam Law 773 (at first instance AB v CB [2015] 2 FLR 25 This is an appeal brought by the trustees of a post-nuptial settlement (“the trustees”) against an order of Mostyn J, made on 25 […]
1st Apr 2015
Before: Mr Justice Mostyn Citation: [2015] EWHC 907 defending a 1975 Act claim (and associated proceedings in Switzerland) This case concerns a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 in respect of the estate of the legendary property dealer Jack Dellal who died on 28 October 2012 aged 89. Eason Rajah […]
1st Jan 2015
Before: Mr Justice Henderson Citation: [2015] EWHC 55 (Ch) Involves issues of sovereign immunity and trust law, and Indian and Shari a succession law. Click here to read more.
26th Nov 2014
Before: Lord Neuberger, Lord Mance, Lord Reed, Lord Hughes and Lord Hodge Citation: [2014] UKPC 40 – Contentious breach of trust claim The principal issue on this appeal is whether proceedings (“the Proceedings”) brought in the Royal Court of Jersey by Cristiana Crociani (“Cristiana”) and others (“the respondents”) against her mother Edoarda Crociani (“Mme Crociani”) […]
23rd Oct 2014
Before: Mr Justice Morgan Citation: [2014] EWHC 3432 (Ch) Settlement Variation of trusts This judgment concerns applications which were made in three related claims. In each claim, the Claimant sought an order under section 1 of the Variation of Trusts Act 1958 (“the 1958 Act”) approving an arrangement proposed to be entered into in relation […]
21st Aug 2014
Before: Mr Justice Morgan Citation: [2014] EWHC 2860 A substantial cross-jurisdictional probate dispute, the reported case involves an attempt to prevent parallel litigation in Holland. Mr Richard Dew (instructed by Kingsley Napley LLP) for the Claimants. Click here to read more.
