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 […]
20th Jan 2022
Evan Price has written ‘A Practical Guide to Challenging a Will Due to Undue Influence or Fraudulent Calumny’, published by Law Brief Publishing. The work is a guide to the concepts of ‘undue influence’ and ‘fraudulent calumny’ and sets out a practical framework for challenges to wills where there is such a claim. Drawing on […]
6th Jul 2021
Evan Price successfully opposes an application by the Trustee of a Discretionary will trust, seeking court approval for a proposed distribution. The claim was found to be improperly constituted since certain discretionary objects were not parties to the proceedings and no provision had been made for their representation. Moreover, on its merits, the distribution was […]
21st Sep 2020
Evan Price and Adam Stewart-Wallace recently spoke to a leading law firm about challenging wills as part of our remote talks programme. Evan and Adam discussed some of the recent caselaw and how it might guide practitioners in deciding how best to make and resist challenges on the basis of lack testamentary capacity, want of […]
27th Sep 2019
Ten Old Square’s barristers and clerks are delighted to have been ranked highly in the Legal 500 2020 Legal Directory Rankings. Ranked across 9 practice areas, 15 of our barristers have been individually mentioned. The Legal 500 overview states: “‘Excellent from top to bottom’, Ten Old Square is ‘a favourite set for complex, traditional Chancery […]
2nd Mar 2018
Evan Price, one of Ten Old Square’s expert wills barristers, successfully acted for the defendant in the high profile case of Hume v Leavey and Hume. The case involved two brothers disputing the ownership of their mother’s Hertfordshire home, after one brother, Glen, was left his mother’s entire estate. The eldest brother, John, claimed that […]