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
Andreas Giannakopoulos has written an article for Trusts & Trustees on some recent additions to the grounds for service out of the jurisdiction for claims in respect of trusts and fiduciary duties. The article considers in detail the scope of the gateways founded on an “essential step” taken in the jurisdiction and makes several proposals […]
27th Feb 2024
Jeremy Callman and Naomi Winston are delighted to announce the publication of a new book on LLP and Partnership Law (co-written with Corinne Staves and Elspeth Berry). LLP and Partnership Law: A legal and practical guide provides a user-friendly, practical, and accessible resource to help practitioners, students, partners and those running firms to navigate this […]
20th Feb 2024
Adam Stewart-Wallace has written a case note for LexisNexis on the recent case of Morina v Scherbakova [2023] EWHC 3253 (Ch), which addressed a range of issues concerning the identification of a testator’s domicile, the law applicable to the essential validity of wills, and the revocation of testamentary dispositions. The article can be read here.
5th Dec 2023
Ten Old Square is delighted to announce the publication of the 5th edition of Sidney Ross’s ‘perennial classic’ on Inheritance Act Claims, a comprehensive exposition of the present state of the law on claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. The new edition marks the thirtieth anniversary of the textbook’s first […]
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
James E. Petts has written an article for Private Client Business, examining the legal issues that arise when a licensee of a deceased’s property, who is also a residuary beneficiary under the will, remains in occupation after death without the permission of the personal representative. The article arises out of a recent case in […]
8th Feb 2023
Elizabeth Atkinson has written an article for Private Client Business, looking at the judgment given in the landmark case of Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27. The Supreme Court handed down majority and minority judgments which examine the proper approach to remedies in cases of proprietary estoppel. The article comprehensively considers these judgments and their […]
