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News

Wilberforce nominated in multiple categories including Set of the Year for third year running at Legal 500 Bar Awards

Wilberforce Chambers is pleased to share that we have been nominated in multiple categories at Legal 500’s 2024 Bar Awards. Wilberforce Chambers has been nominated for ‘Set of the Year’ for the third year in a row as well as ‘Chancery... Read more

Wednesday 10 July 2024

Recent Cases

Court of Appeal gives judgment on meaning of “ceases to own” in context of capital allowances legislative regime

Tax

Jonathan Davey KC
Monday 8 July 2024

Recent Cases

Supreme Court decision in Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd (no.2) [2024] UKSC 22

Property

James McCreath
Tuesday 2 July 2024

Articles

Co-ownership in the business context: the odiousness of survivorship in equity

Article by John Grocott-Barrett, 27th June 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. The co-ownership of property is a question that vexes all private client lawyers. The recent judgment of Nugee LJ, a former member of... Read more

By John Grocott-Barrett
Friday 28 June 2024

Recent Cases

Judgment handed down in The Tropical Zoo Ltd v The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Hounslow

Property

Martin Hutchings KC | Julian Greenhill KC | Daniel Petrides | Ernest Leung
Thursday 20 June 2024

Recent Cases

Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal hands down judgment in China Life Trustees v China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group

Trusts, probate and estates: contentious, International / offshore

Jonathan Hilliard KC
Monday 17 June 2024

Recent Cases

Upper Tribunal decides tax and trusts appeal in respect of gilt strips

Tax, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious, Trusts, probate and estates: non-contentious

Jonathan Davey KC
Friday 14 June 2024

Articles

Trust me, I’m a dolphin!

Joseph Steadman has written an article in which he considers McHale v Dunlop, a recent claim for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, arising from the loss of pension assets transferred into a SSAS and invested in an overseas investment... Read more

By Joseph Steadman
Thursday 13 June 2024

Articles

Eternal life, or dead and buried – which claims survive death?

Article by Lemuel Lucan-Wilson, 23rd May 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Lois McMaster Bujold once wrote “the dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so... Read more

By Lemuel Lucan-Wilson
Thursday 23 May 2024

Articles

Green, brown and grey belts: modifying restrictive covenants, and the Upper Tribunal’s Discretion

Article by Martin Hutchings KC, 20th May 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. Introduction Why s.84(1) powers of the Upper Tribunal matter. The powers of the UT are important to developers because they are... Read more

By Martin Hutchings KC
Monday 20 May 2024

News

Wilberforce shortlisted for Set of the Year at the High Net Worth Awards 2024

We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers has been shortlisted at the High Net Worth Awards 2024 for Set of the Year. Chambers and Partners’ criteria for this nomination reads as follows; “These award nominations and the ultimate winners are the... Read more

Thursday 2 May 2024

Articles

A Tale of Two Forums – the decision in Grosskopf v Grosskopf [2024] EWHC 291 (Ch)

Article by Ernest Leung, 19th March 2024 To read or download this article as a PDF, please click here. 1. The decision by Master Clark on 16 February 2024 in Grosskopf v Grosskopf (two members of Wilberforce Chambers: Fenner Moeran KC... Read more

By Ernest Leung
Friday 26 April 2024