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.
Ten Old Square will be hosting the following breakfast briefings at the Supreme Court: Privacy in the Court of Protection – 22nd June Georgia Bedworth and James Kirby Litigation friends – 6th July Richard Dew, Thomas James and Elizabeth Atkinson Jurisdiction and Cross-border Court of Protection Issues – 7th September Naomi Winston […]
Event Date: 29th June 2023, 18:30 to 11:30
Ten Old Square is excited to announce its Junior Lawyers’ Summer Party which will be held on Thursday 29th June 2023 starting at 18:30 at The London Shuffle Club, 4 Ebor Street, Shoreditch, London, E1 6AW (www.londonshuffle.com). Join us for an evening of shuffleboard, drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), pizza, and, most importantly, a catch-up! Numbers are limited so please […]
Event Date: 14th September 2023
Ten Old Square is delighted to announce that we will be back with the London Trusts Conference 2023 on 14th September 2023 at BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP. We look forward to seeing everyone there. Look out for more announcements as to topics and speakers soon.
4th May 2023
Our Senior Clerk, Keith Plowman, collaborates with Advanced to provide our Chambers with the very latest Microsoft Azure digital environment so that we all work in the most secure way. Read the article here.
4th May 2023
James Kirby acted for the First Defendant in James v Scudamore [2023] EWHC 996 (Ch), in which a claim to revoke a grant of probate was defeated by what the claimant’s delay in issuing proceedings. The case is legally significant because it establishes the existence of a “probate doctrine of laches”, under which a claim […]
11th Apr 2023
Evan Price acted for the successful respondents in this interesting property appeal where the issues related to a physical re-entry of commercial property. The appellants sought to appeal on grounds that the right to re-enter was waived by the landlord; that the s.146 notice was defective and so invalid; and that relief from forfeiture should […]
27th Mar 2023
On 21 March 2023, the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) handed down judgment in HFFX LLP v HMRC [2023] UKUT 73 (TCC). James Kirby acted as junior counsel for HMRC. The Upper Tribunal’s decision is the latest in a series of income tax appeals concerning corporate partner avoidance schemes, whereby LLPs in the financial […]
