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.
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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.
22nd Feb 2024
David Schmitz recently appeared for the appellant in the Court of Appeal in Campbell v NHS Business Services Authority [2023] EWCA Civ 1351, which has now been reported at [2024] Pens LR 4. The case concerned the reach of a provision in the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, which deems a person’s employment to continue […]
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.
19th Feb 2024
Andreas Giannakopoulos has co-authored a case comment with Adnan Khaliq on the CJEU’s recent decision in Charles Taylor Adjusting Ltd v Starlight Shipping Co, which addressed the compatibility of awards of damages for breach of jurisdiction agreements with the Brussels-Lugano framework. The article, published in the LMCLQ, examines the CJEU’s reasoning in light of its […]
14th Feb 2024
Richard Dew appeared for the Claimant in this probate claim, instructed by Nicola Bushby of Boodle Hatfield. The Judge found that two of the deceased’s children procured a will at a time when the testator had no ability to understand it. The will was set aside on the grounds of lack of capacity, want of knowledge […]
Ten Old Square will hold a live webinar with Q&A featuring James MacDougald and Thomas James. Challenging solicitors’ costs A brief review of the different regimes for assessing solicitors’ costs under ss. 70-71 Solicitors Act 1974 as understood following the Court of Appeal’s very recent decision in Kenig v Thomson Snell v Passmore [2024] EWCA […]
Event Date: 28th February 2024, 18:00 to 22:00
INHERITANCE ACT CLAIMS – RECENT DEVELOPMENTS To celebrate the launch of the Fifth Edition of Ross on Inheritance Act Claims, join us at 20 Cavendish Square on 28th February 2024 to hear Sidney Ross, James Poole and Elizabeth Atkinson discuss recent developments in this ever-evolving area of the law, including discussions on why claims […]
Event Date: 6th March 2024, 18:00 to 22:00
INFORMAL PROPERTY DEALINGS – PITFALLS AND SOLUTIONS A seminar exploring issues commonly arising when families, partners and associates attempt to jointly profit from real estate (including express and implied trusts, proprietary estoppel, TOLATA and land registration), in the context of a sociable and entertaining debate. SIGN UP NOW!
