External Conferences
Can you keep a secret? Secret trusts (and trusts that are secret): principles, pitfalls and possibilities
Thursday 23 April 2026 | from 6pm
Sinclair Gibson, London
Speakers:
Elizabeth Houghton
Trusts, probate and estates: contentious, Commercial disputes, Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious
Trust structures in the crosshairs: When to worry and what to do
Thursday 4 June
9am - 10.30am
The Wilberforce Building Chancery Lane, London
Free to attend
LIDW 2026
Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to be involved in London International Disputes Week (LIDW) 2026, a multi-day conference comprising events looking at key issues and trends across the international commercial disputes community.
Jonathan Hilliard KC, Anna Littler and Michael Ashdown will be presenting a talk with Jonathan Arr, Jacob Ward and Emma Cohen (Macfarlanes).
The talk will cover trusts are facing increased scrutiny, and the challenges of managing them are becoming more complex. In this session, we’ll bring these issues to life with real world case examples and share practical insights on:
- How to approach protector powers and the risk of deadlock, drawing on experience analysing the position in the Privy Council (the highest appeal court for many common-law jurisdictions).
- Responding when capacity is weaponised, from our recent experience in numerous very delicate examples.
- When lawyers become the target: The claims that can be brought against lawyers involved in setting up structures, and how to avoid being the target of those claims yourself.
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