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.
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Our resources pages include information on recent cases and publications.
This includes links to articles authored by our barristers and high profile cases in which we have been involved.
15th Aug 2018
Keith Plowman, Senior Clerk at Ten Old Square, reports on cloud technology and the perils of not protecting data and documentation under the new GDPR, a law which affects all organisations. His article is published in the New Law Journal – click here to read the full report on page 20.
3rd Aug 2018
Chambers warmly congratulates Richard Dew and Leon Pickering who have both been named as ‘Ones to Watch 2018’ by the Private Client Global Elite directory. This well deserved achievement recognises their private client and trusts dispute expertise advising UHNW clients. A black tie gala dinner is being hosted by Global Elite on Thursday 4 October 2018 to […]
6th Jun 2018
James MacDougald considers the recent decision by the Court of Appeal in Payne v Payne [2018] EWCA Civ 985, which reviewed the formal requirements for attestation of wills and the evidential rules in probate claims. To read the published article click here: https://www.lawskills.co.uk/articles/2018/06/what-forms-of-attestation-are-accepted-in-court/
1st May 2018
Ten Old Square’s Richard Dew acted for the siblings in the recent hearing to determine the validity of a second will of a dying millionaire, who signed over almost half of his estate to his carer in the final days before he died. Donna Henderson “guided the hand” of retired London banker Marcel Chu to […]
25th Apr 2018
Ten Old Square’s Simon Taube QC successfully acted for Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited, a trustee subsidiary of the Investec banking and asset management company, in its eight-year case against the current trustees of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust and the liquidators of Investec Trust’s former subsidiary BVI Companies. On 23 April 2018 the Privy Council rejected the current […]
17th Apr 2018
Ten Old Square’s Richard Dew is speaking at the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Conference 2018 in New York in April in the section on international law on pre-marital agreements and succession regimes. It promises to be a comprehensive and informative conference exploring the fusion of private and public law, with a number of experts from around the […]
12th Apr 2018
Ten Old Square’s Francis Barlow QC, Simon Taube QC and Eason Rajah QC, together with Susannah Meadway and Richard Dew, are recommended for their private client expertise in Who’s Who Legal UK Bar 2018. The “three silks from Ten Old Square are highlighted …. for their impressive work in the private client space”. In particular, Head […]
