Tiffany Scott

Practice Overview

Tiffany specialises in trusts and estates litigation, property litigation and professional liability claims. She is recommended as a leading junior in all three areas by The Legal 500 and for her real estate litigation practice in Chambers and Partners.  She also has expertise in 'business' litigation of all kinds including fund and partnership disputes, company and insolvency claims, and civil fraud claims. 

Professional Reputation

Successive editions of The Legal 500 observe that she is '"a highly committed and focused junior, emphatically a rising star in the areas of trust and estate litigation", "a powerful advocate", has "a fantastic eye for detail" and that "the quality of her instructions and range of recent experience mark the arrival of someone set for success".'  Chambers and Partners, 2010 states that 'sources emphasise her fine cross-examination skills and say "her style is effective as she is ruthless, yet never over the top, when exposing the limitations of her opponent's case".'

Qualifications

• Degree in Classics, Oriel College, Oxford
• Oriel College Exhibitioner
• Distinction in Postgraduate Diploma in Law
• College of Law prize for best tort paper
• Diplock Scholarship, Middle Temple
• Laurence Kingsley Prize for Excellence in Drafting and Pleading, Inns of Court School of Law

Memberships

• Chancery Bar Association
• Property Bar Association
• Professional Negligence Bar Association
• Bar Pro Bono Panel
• STEP

Publications

Editor of Hill and Redman's Law of Landlord and Tenant.

Contributor to the Real Property section of Butterworths' Civil Court Precedents.

Author of articles - recently including 'The Valuer as the Victim of Fraud', 'Civil Fraud - The Professionals' Responsibilities', '1954 Act - Validity of Notices'.

Regular presenter at seminars, for in-house training and at conferences on a wide variety of topics - recently including mortgage fraud, property-related insolvency, loss of a chance in negligence claims, privilege and disclosure.