Radcliffe Chambers Private Client Team will be attending ConTrA

Radcliffe Chambers’ private client team will be attending the ConTrA Trusts in Litigation Conference in Venice between 22-24 March 2023! Members attending include: Thomas Dumont KC William Moffett Marcus Flavin Oliver Hilton Josh Lewison Wendy Mathers Daniel Burton Henry Day Jonathan Edwards Emma Loizou Poppy Rimington-Pounder Daniel Thorpe Piers Digby   If you are attending […]

Robert Lee

Robert has worked on cases across the range of traditional and commercial Chancery work including insolvency, company, commercial, wills and probate, trusts, property, landlord and tenant, and professional negligence. He is developing a particular expertise in insolvency, commercial, and contentious probate matters. Before starting pupillage at Radcliffe, Robert worked as a Legislation Adviser at the […]

Amber Turner

Amber regularly appears as sole counsel in the County Court and High Court. She has also been instructed as junior counsel in the Court of Appeal and in the Commercial Court and has experience of appearing in the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).  Amber is continuing to build a mixed Chancery practice combining commercial, insolvency, private client and property work. Before starting pupillage at Radcliffe, Amber worked […]

Matthew Tonnard

Matthew is recognised for combining strong advocacy with commercial judgment. Ranked as a Leading Junior in The Legal 500, he has been described as “an excellent advocate who is tough in cross-examination whilst always appearing reasonable.” He is frequently instructed both as sole counsel and as part of larger counsel teams by financial institutions, corporations, insolvency […]

Inheritance Tax – Indentifying Interests in Possession – Kate Selway KC

Kate Selway KC has successfully represented the taxpayers in the recent First Tier Tribunal decision of Hall v HMRC [2023] UKFTT 32 (TC) in an important case about occupation rights arising under a will and the nature of interests in possession for tax purposes. The issue was whether an interest in possession (IIP) for IHT […]

King appoints Katherine McQuail to be a Master of the Chancery Division

We are pleased to announce that the King has appointed Katherine McQuail to be a Master of the Chancery Division with effect from 11 January! Katherine will be based at the Rolls Building, Royal Courts of Justice. Katherine was called to the Bar in 1989 and undertook pupillage at 11 Old Square (the Chambers of […]

60-seconds with Sophia Rogers

Sophia Rogers features in the most recent edition of ThoughtLeaders4 Private Client Magazine. The article titled ’60-seconds with Sophia Rogers’ can be found on page four, here.

Occupation of Premises by a Charity for Charitable Purposes by Clive Moys

Clive Moys features in the most recent issue of Sweet & Maxwell’s Private Client Business. The 80% mandatory non-domestic rates relief enjoyed by a charitable body in occupation of a hereditament is a concession of considerable value and importance – Local Government Finance Act 1988, s. 43 (or s. 45, viz. an unoccupied hereditament). Both […]

Consequences of Cohabitation and Divorce: Till death do us part?

On Thursday 17th November, Daniel Burton and Emma Loizou presented a webinar on ‘Consequences of Cohabitation and Divorce: Till death do us part?’ In this webinar, Emma discusses options available for cohabiting partners where one partner has died intestate or has failed to leave sufficient provision in a will for the other. Daniel discusses conflicts […]