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.
Inheritance, Probate & Wills
We are consistently ranked as one of the top private client sets of Chambers in Chambers UK, Chambers HNW and The Legal 500
Inheritance Act Claims
Our barristers are expert in bringing and defending claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
We regularly act for both estates and beneficiaries, offering advice and representation at all stages of these claims, including: applications for permission to bring claims out of time, applications for interim payments, and at FDR hearings.
We frequently give seminars on legal developments in this area
Sidney Ross is the author of Sweet & Maxwell’s Inheritance Act Claims (4th Ed.).
Wills & Probate
Ten Old Square is very well known for its expertise in wills and probate matters, both contentious and non-contentious. We are instructed in many of the leading probate and wills cases, and to advise in respect of some of the largest and most complex estates in England and Wales.
Our members produce the leading practitioners’ work, Williams on Wills (11th ed.). For details of the seminars our members give in this area, see here.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Disputes concerning the validity of alleged wills, including on grounds of lack of capacity, want of knowledge and approval, undue influence or fraud;
- Advising on the construction and rectification of wills;
- Disputes concerning the administration of estates;
- Claims concerning the removal of personal representatives;
- Non-contentious probate matters, including applications for grants of probate and letters of administration;
- Cross-border will disputes
- Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- Drafting wills and codicils; and
- Professional negligence in wills & probate matters
Contact our Inheritance, Probate & Wills Clerks
Contact our experienced Clerks to find out which Inheritance, Probate & Wills barristers would be ideal for you. They have many years of experience and will ensure that you receive a premium service and advise on the suitability, availability and cost of instructing specialist Counsel.
Call +44 (0)20 7405 0758
Email clerks@tenoldsquare.com
Inheritance, Probate & Wills Barristers
Simon Taube KC
Call 1980
Sidney Ross
Call 1983
Susannah Meadway
Call 1988
Samuel Laughton
Call 1993
Robert Arnfield
Call 1996
Evan Price
Call 1997
Richard Dew
Call 1999
Georgia Bedworth
Call 2001
James E. Petts
Call 2002
Philip Jenkins
Call 2003 & Accredited Mediator
Naomi Winston
Call 2006
James MacDougald
Call 2011
James Egan
Call 2015
James Poole
Call 2016 & Accredited Mediator
James Kirby
Call 2017
Adam Stewart-Wallace
Call 2018
Thomas Arnull
Call 2019
Thomas James
Call 2018
Elizabeth Atkinson
Call 2021 & Accredited Mediator
