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.
Trusts & Estates
Trusts
Our barristers are renowned specialists in the law of Trusts, and both Ten Old Square and its members are consistently recommended for their expertise by Chambers UK, Chambers HNW and the Legal 500, the leading legal directories.
We have strength in depth across all levels of seniority, with expertise in both contentious and non-contentious trusts work. Our barristers are regularly instructed to advise on trusts in both private client and commercial contexts, and in offshore trust disputes. Every facet of trusts law is covered in Chambers. Our areas of trusts expertise include:
- The construction and rectification of trust documents;
- The scope of trustees’ powers and duties;
- Claims for breaches of trust and breaches of fiduciary duty;
- Applications under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958;
- The taxation of trusts, including tax planning
- Drafting trust documents;
- Offshore trust disputes;
- Charitable trusts;
- Professional negligence in trusts matters.
Our members give regular seminars to other legal professional in this area. Ten Old Square also hosts the London Trusts Conference, a regular annual event that features in the calendars of most of the leading trusts lawyers in the UK.
Estates
Our barristers are specialists in the law of Estates, and both Ten Old Square and its members are consistently recommended for their expertise by Chambers UK and the Legal 500, the leading legal directories.
Our areas of expertise include:
- The construction and rectification of Wills;
- Disputes concerning the validity of alleged wills, including on grounds of lack of capacity, want of knowledge and approval, undue influence or fraud
- The scope of Executors and Administrators’ powers and duties;
- Claims for breaches of trust and breaches of fiduciary duty;
- The administration of estates;
- The taxation of estates, including tax planning;
- Drafting estate documents;
- Contentious probate disputes;
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims;
- Offshore estate disputes;
- Professional negligence in estates matters – read more.
Our members give regular seminars in this area.
Contact our Trusts & Estates Clerks
Contact our experienced Clerks to find out which Trusts & Estates 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
Trusts & Estates Barristers
Simon Taube KC
Call 1980
David Schmitz
Call 1976
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
Philip Jenkins
Call 2003 & Accredited Mediator
Matthew Slater
Call 2005
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
