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.
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 […]
6th Aug 2020
Simon Taube KC recently appeared in the Supreme Court on behalf of the successful appellant in Lehtimäki and others v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33. The Court restored the decision at first instance of Vos J, holding that the court had an inherent jurisdiction to order a member of a charitable company, as a fiduciary, to […]
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 […]
10th Oct 2019
We are delighted to share our Chambers UK Bar 2020 directory rankings. Ranked as Band 2 in Court of Protection: Property & Affairs; “Ten Old Square offers a broad expertise in property and affairs matters, drawing on the set’s recognised strength in private client work. Members are particularly well regarded for their handling of Court […]
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 […]
14th May 2019
Ten Old Square’s Silks and Juniors have been recommended for their outstanding expertise and experience in their specialist areas of law in the recently published Who’s Who Legal, UK Bar 2019. Head of Chambers, Francis Barlow KC , (“impressive private client practice”), Simon Taube KC (” ‘fantastic’ private client Silk”) and Eason Rajah KC (“the finest […]
25th Apr 2018
Ten Old Square’s Simon Taube KC successfully acted for Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited, a trustee subsidiary of the Investec banking and asset management company, in its eight-year case against the current trustees of the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust and the liquidators of Investec Trust’s former subsidiary BVI Companies. On 23 April 2018 the Privy Council rejected the current […]
