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   Wilberforce Chambers wins ‘Set of the Year’ and ‘Star Junior’ at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2025

   We are delighted to have picked up both Bar awards at last night’s Chambers High Net Worth Awards. Wilberforce Chambers won ‘Set of the Year’ and Elizabeth Houghton was named ‘Star Junior’. This prestigious annual event celebrates legal firms and... Read more

   Friday 11 July 2025

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   Wilberforce shortlisted in two categories at the High Net Worth Awards 2025

   We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers has been shortlisted at the High Net Worth Awards 2025 for Set of the Year and Elizabeth Houghton has been shortlisted as Star Junior. Chambers and Partners’ criteria for this nomination reads as... Read more

   Thursday 24 April 2025

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   Articles

   Marcus v Marcus: can a non-biological child be ‘a child of the settlor’?

   Article by Elizabeth Houghton, 4th December 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. In the recent judgment of Marcus v Marcus [2024] EWHC 2086, Master Marsh found that the words “the children and remoter issue of... Read more

   By Elizabeth Houghton
   Wednesday 4 December 2024

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   Guest v Guest: clarity at last for proprietary estoppel?

   To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Guest v Guest[1] is one in a long line of decisions involving proprietary estoppel and the family farm. The principles applicable to establishing proprietary estoppel claims are now... Read more

   By Elizabeth Houghton
   Thursday 30 March 2023

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   Powers of appointment: All in the wording

   By Elizabeth Houghton
   Monday 18 October 2021

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   Implied Revocation of Deeds of Appointment? Equiom v Velarde

   By Elizabeth Houghton
   Monday 2 August 2021

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   Webchats

   Top 5 trusts cases of the past legal year

   Michael Furness KC and Elizabeth Houghton walk you through their top 5 trusts cases of the past legal year!

   Michael Furness KC | Elizabeth Houghton
   Tuesday 27 October 2020

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