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.
12th Mar 2024
Ten Old Square will hold a live webinar with Q&A featuring Richard Dew and James Kirby. Conflicts of Interest in the Court of Protection Richard and James will be covering all aspects of the Re PW judgment, including the implications of the judgment on professional deputies going forwards. The webinar will take place on 28th […]
11th Mar 2024
Ten Old Square is delighted to be sponsoring the 7th edition of the Contentious Trusts Association’s annual Trusts in Litigation Conference, which will take place from 20 to 22 March 2024 at the Marriott Hotel in Budapest. Georgia Bedworth will be delivering a workshop on 21 March entitled “What duties are owed by advisors onshore […]
1st Dec 2023
In the latest issue of Trusts & Trustees, Georgia Bedworth and James Kirby discuss the courts’ approach to the application of the open justice principle in trusts and capacity proceedings. The article traces the evolution of the case law and procedural rules both in England and Wales and in offshore jurisdictions. It also takes stock […]
16th Oct 2023
On 12 October 2023, the Court of Appeal gave judgment in BCM Cayman Ltd v HMRC [2023] EWCA Civ 1179. This is the latest instalment in a long-running saga of tax litigation concerning the affairs of the BlueCrest fund management business. The Court of Appeal dismissed the taxpayers’ appeal in relation to £32m of disputed […]
5th Oct 2023
‘Ten Old Square is a go-to set for chancery work. It has tremendous strength and depth of expertise, excellent availability of counsel and can always be relied upon to deliver work within agreed time-frames.’ Chambers is pleased to announce its latest rankings in the Legal 500 Bar directory. We are again ranked as a top […]
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 […]
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 […]
