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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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10th Oct 2018
Ten Old Square is delighted to announce that James Kirby will be joining Chambers as a new tenant from 1 October 2018, upon the successful completion of his pupillage. James has gained wide experience in a range of Chancery and commercial matters, including: Private Client (both Contentious and Non-Contentious); Property (including Landlord and Tenant); Court […]
28th Aug 2018
Eason Rajah QC is named in this year’s Private Client Global Elite 2018 directory, recognising his private client expertise advising UHNW clients. The global directory lists the world’s top private client and trust disputes lawyers and recognises Eason’s broad practice which includes domestic, off shore and cross-border trusts, will disputes and related tax and professional negligence issues.
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 […]
