News
Citywealth Magic Circle Awards have recently revealed their 2024 shortlist and we are delighted to announce that Wilberforce has been shortlisted for Chambers of the Year. In order to vote and/or to view the full shortlist, please click here. Voting closes... Read more
Tuesday 14 November 2023
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Articles
Article by Benjamin Slingo, 30th October 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Lumb v Lumb [2023] EWHC 2052 (Ch) was an appeal on costs which sheds interesting light on how general rules of... Read more
By Benjamin Slingo
Monday 30 October 2023
Recent Cases
Banking and financial services, Property, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious
Zoë Barton KC | Jia Wei Lee
Thursday 5 October 2023
Articles
David Pollard and Joseph Steadman’s article, ‘Pensions, personal bankruptcy and creditor recovery: recent developments’, has been published in Issue 37.2 of Trust Law International by Bloomsbury Publishing. Trust Law International is a well established quarterly journal with a mixed readership... Read more
By David Pollard | Joseph Steadman
Friday 15 September 2023
Recent Cases
Tax, Property, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious
Jonathan Davey KC
Tuesday 12 September 2023
Articles
As a part of the “Remind me about” series, Robert Ham KC discusses two current issues regarding trustee remuneration, namely the 2022 decision of the Court of Appeal in Re Townsend and the new tPR Code provisions. The article was... Read more
By Robert Ham KC
Monday 11 September 2023
Articles
Article by Samuel Cathro, 30th August 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. If the court blesses a transaction, the trustee is immune from subsequent challenge. One might be forgiven for thinking that is... Read more
By Samuel Cathro
Wednesday 30 August 2023
Recent Cases
Pensions
Brian Green KC | Michael Tennet KC | Edward Sawyer | Joseph Steadman
Monday 14 August 2023
News
We are delighted to announce that Jennifer Seaman has been promoted to the London A Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointment is for a period of five years commencing 1st September 2023 and expiring on 31st August... Read more
Tuesday 1 August 2023
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Articles
Article by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, 31st July 2023 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. The recent case of Bhaur v Equity First Trustees (Nevis) Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 534 provides a timely reminder of the... Read more
By Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Monday 31 July 2023
News
Paul Newman KC‘s book: ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Correcting Mistakes in Pension Schemes’, has been reviewed in the latest issue of Private Client Business. Reviewer Mark Herbert states in his opening line: “This book is graced with a foreword by... Read more
Monday 17 July 2023
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Paul Newman KC has written an article on the principles of statutory construction, which might be relevant to the interpretation of a term of art used in a statutory instrument – such as “accrued rights” in the contracting-out legislation recently... Read more
By Paul Newman KC
Thursday 13 July 2023