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.
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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.
17th Apr 2024
Chambers were delighted to see so many professional colleagues and friends yesterday at the Law Society for the launch of the new LexisNexis UK book ‘LLP and Partnership Law: A legal and practical guide’ co-authored by Jeremy Callman, Naomi Winston, Corinne Staves, and Elspeth Berry. The evening was a great success, and we thank everyone […]
15th Apr 2024
Ten Old Square is delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2024 Bar Pro Bono Awards, with over 100 nominations received. This is the latest recognition of our members’ commitment to pro bono work at all levels of call. Congratulations to all those who were shortlisted!
9th Apr 2024
Richard Dew and Andreas Giannakopoulos will be speaking at the Chancery Bar Association’s Geneva Conference on 18 April 2024. Richard Dew will examine the latest developments in cross-border succession & protection of adults alongside Robert Avis of Charles Russell Speechlys (Geneva). Andreas Giannakopoulos will discuss the impact of breach of jurisdiction agreements on enforcement in the […]
20th Mar 2024
The much-anticipated judgment in Irwin Mitchell Trust Corporation v PW [2024] EWCOP 16 was handed down on 19 March 2024. This is now the leading decision on whether professional deputies can invest assets through connected investment managers. HHJ Hilder held that a corporate deputy’s appointment of an investment manager within the same group structure gave […]
19th Mar 2024
Georgia Bedworth represented the Official Solicitor in BH v JH [2024] EWCOP 12, the latest reported decision on the service rules in COPR 2017 PD 9E and the only reported decision to consider the meaning of the requirement to serve a party “materially” affected by the application. The case concerned an application to vary a statutory […]
Ten Old Square will hold a live webinar with Q&A featuring Richard Dew and James Kirby. Conflicts of Interest in the Court of Protection Richard and James will be covering all aspects of the Re PW judgment, including the implications of the judgment on professional deputies going forwards. The webinar will take place on 28th […]
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 […]
