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.
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.
Our resources pages include information on recent news and forthcoming events; links to articles and leading publications authored by our members; and a catalogue of cases in which members have been involved.
Ten Old Square – Events, Seminars & Training
We are able to provide our professional clients with high-level education and training to keep them fully aware of the evolutionary developments in the law and their practical application to client matters as they arise. Thought provoking topics and delegate participation are woven onto the fabric of our seminars; we aim for all our attendees to leave our training events with much more than just the seminar notes.
In addition to the regular open events, our barristers also offer in-house training seminars covering a broad range of relevant and topical developments in law. If you would like more information about our in-house training or seminars please contact Carine Campbell on 020 7405 0758.
Court of Protection
Ten Old Square have experience at all levels of seniority in Court of Protection work.
Our members act for both private litigants and for the Official Solicitor, when appointed as the litigation friend for a person without capacity. Individual members have been described as “top of the tree for Court of Protection” (Chambers 2015), “very diligent, very well prepared” (Chambers 2016) and as “calm, sophisticated, smooth, highly intelligent and a shrewd strategist” (Chambers 2017).
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Our members deliver high quality legal expertise 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 members, areas of expertise or about the way we work in general, please contact our clerks who will be happy to provide further guidance.
Call +44 (0)20 7405 0758
Email clerks@tenoldsquare.com
Barristers here deal with the full range of Court of Protection work, both advising and appearing in court. With particular expertise and an enviable reputation for private client work, members of Chambers are most regularly seen involved in property and affairs cases, particularly statutory gift, tax planning and statutory will applications.
Examples of work undertaken by Ten Old Square include:
- Lasting powers of attorney, their validity, extent and registration;
- The appointment, removal and control of deputies;
- Deputy and attorney liability and retrospective gift applications;
- Statutory gifts, tax planning and other tax arrangements;
- Statutory will applications, included expedited ones;
- The sale or other dispositions of property;
- Variation of trusts;
- Authorising and preventing deputies and attorneys in the conduct of litigation;
- Where P should live and who should have contact with them;
- The international jurisdiction of the Court of Protection; and
- Costs and the departure from the general rule.
Eason Rajah QC is one of the editors of the Court of Protection law reports and members of Chambers regularly give talks on Court of Protection practice and procedure.
