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.
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 […]
30th Sep 2022
“Ten Old Square is the ‘go-to’ set for trust disputes” and “one of the preeminent sets for partnership expertise.” Chambers is delighted to announce its latest rankings in the Legal 500 Bar directory. We are again ranked as a top set across a wide range of practice areas, including Partnership, Private client: trusts and probate, […]
30th Sep 2021
Ten Old Square are delighted to share that we have been ranked highly in the newly released Legal 500 2022 edition. We have been recognised as a ‘Top Tier Set’ in Company and Partnership (tier 1) and are recommended for both Private Client: Trusts and Probate (tier 2) and Offshore (tier 3). All three of […]
10th Feb 2021
Sam Laughton recently acted for the successful claimant in Patel v Barlows Solicitors (A Firm) [2021] 4 WLR 6. After a 5-day trial in the Chancery Division, it was held that an abortive joint venture for the purchase and sale of properties was a “business” within the meaning of the Partnership Act 1890. In the alternative, it was held that the monies advanced […]
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 […]
2nd Dec 2019
Sam Laughton has produced a property analysis on the case of Aldford House Freehold Ltd v Grosvenor with Lexis Nexis: The Court of Appeal held that a separate set of premises is not a flat (as defined) unless at some stage in its history it has reached a stage of construction to be suitable for use […]
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 […]
