Fraudulent Calumny—The Unanswered Questions
Josh Lewison recently featured in [2024] Private Client Business Issue 3 for his article on ‘Fraudulent Calumny—The Unanswered Questions’. Over the past ten years or so, the plea of fraudulent calumny has emerged as a mainstay of contentious probate claims, almost on a par with testamentary capacity, want of knowledge and approval and undue influence. […]
Kate Selway KC
She has appeared in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal and has a wealth of trial experience in the High Court. She also regularly appears in the first tier and upper tribunals in tax, charity and property appeals and in the Court of Protection. As a junior she was on the Attorney General’s A, […]
Junior Programme: Top Cases of 2023 hosted by Piers Digby and Robert Lee – Thursday 7 December
Join us for our final Junior Programme of 2023, hosted by Piers Digby and Robert Lee on Thursday, 7th December, 11:00-12:00. This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. You can sign up via Zoom’s website here. Junior Programme events are aimed at recently qualified lawyers and consist of an hour long webinar covering topical issues such […]
Gordon Nurse
His advice in sporting matters include the drafting of club constitutions, the obtaining of charitable status by organisations concerned with sport, as well as the drafting and enforcement of disciplinary regulations. He was a member of the Hockey Jury of Appeal at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
Elizabeth Ovey
Elizabeth is a part-time judge of the Upper Tribunal, which gives her an additional insight into the tribunal side of the Courts and Tribunals Service, which now encompasses financial services, pensions and charity matters. Elizabeth is regularly involved in advising in connection with and attending mediations in her areas of practice. She is ranked as […]
Junior Programme: Private Client hosted by Jonathan Edwards and Amber Turner – Thursday 23 November
Join us for Junior Programme: Private Client hosted by Jonathan Edwards and Amber Turner on Thursday, 23rd November, 11:00-12:00. This webinar will be hosted on Zoom. You can sign up via Zoom’s website here. Junior Programme events are aimed at recently qualified lawyers and consist of an hour long webinar covering topical issues such as recent […]
Blessings: when worlds collide – Article by David Mohyuddin KC and Daniel Burton
For over 100 years, the English Courts have entertained applications by trustees for directions, including to bless proposed “momentous” exercises of powers. Recently, this jurisdiction has extended through judicial decisions to corporate office-holders. The jurisdiction has received increasing scrutiny, not least in relation to the vexed question of immunity, resulting in the Court of Appeal’s recent […]
Piers Feltham
The spectrum of his practice is such that at different times he has legally advised the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrat Party, the Communist Party of Great Britain, the Workers’ Revolutionary Party and the Muslim Council of Great Britain, and his pro bono work includes helping the “Ad Hoc” group of zoologists […]
PSG Trust Corporation v CK [2024] EWCOP 14
Justin Holmes, instructed by the Official Solicitor, was successful in PSG Trust Corporation v CK [2024] EWCOP 14, a decision of Hayden J, which considered the circumstances in which knowledge of the size of her compensation fund could be withheld from P. It is not uncommon, particularly in brain injury cases, for survivors to be […]
Howard Smith
His contentious commercial work involves contractual disputes, banking, insurance, third party costs and insolvency. His non-contentious commercial work includes drafting commercial contracts, security documents and overage agreements. He is the Consulting Editor of the “Deeds and other Instruments” volume of “Halsbury’s Laws” (2019). Howard also specialises in private client work, including Court of Protection, probate […]
