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.
22nd Apr 2021
Richard Dew will be a speaker at Simon Gore’s Webinar ‘Dealing with Secret and Half Secret Trusts’ on 23rd June from 12.30 – 2pm. This webinar will consider the recent decision in Titcombe v Ison from the perspective of two of the practitioners in the case. Issues in the case included whether and when promises were sufficient […]
13th Apr 2021
Richard Dew will be a speaker at Simon Gore’s Contentious Probate 2021 Seminar on the latest on undue influence after (Coles v Reynolds) and other cases. This online seminar is useful for Contentious Probate Lawyers; Probate and estate administrators; Dispute resolution and private client litigators. SIGN UP HERE
8th Mar 2021
Richard Dew successfully defends a claim asserting that Norwegian inheritance applies to the estate of an individual who had lived in Norway but died domiciled in Wales – and at the same time shows that the earlier decision in Banks v Natwest Bank regarding the principles of ademption (which he also appeared in) did not […]
22nd Oct 2020
Ten Old Square is delighted to share that we have been ranked highly in the newly released Chambers UK 2021 edition. We have been recognised as Band 1 in Chancery: Traditional and Partnership, Band 2 in Court of Protection: Property and Affairs. All three of our KCs have been ranked in Band 1; Francis Barlow […]
1st Oct 2020
Ten Old Square are delighted to share that we have been ranked highly in the newly released Legal 500 2021 edition. We have been recognised as Tier 1 in Property Litigation and Charities, Tier 2 in Agriculture and Private Client: Trusts and Probate. All three of our KC’s have been established as Leading Silks. Congratulations […]
27th Aug 2020
Richard Dew recently appeared before Chief Master Marsh in Cotterell and Cutsem v Allendale and Beaumont [2020] EWHC 2234. The case clarified an important point of principle for practitioners—whether section 57 of the Trustee Act 1925 permits the court to vary trustees’ management or administration powers generally, or whether a specific transaction must be envisaged. […]
9th Jul 2020
Ten Old Square has been ranked band 1 for Chancery: Traditional in the newly released Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2020. Chambers HNW commented: Ten Old Square is a highly respected traditional chancery set. Its “really good-quality barristers” are particularly well known for their depth of expertise in advisory matters relating to wills, trusts […]
