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Publications

Butterworths Property Law Handbook

Jonathan Davey KC | Benjamin Faulkner
November 2022

Articles

Does a third party owe a duty of care to a beneficiary?

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Andrew Mold KC Establishing that a duty of care is owed to a beneficiary by a third party (i.e. someone other than the trustee or a person with... Read more

By Andrew Mold KC
Thursday 24 November 2022

News

Jonathan Seitler KC and Clare Stanley KC win at Chambers Bar Awards 2022

We are absolutely delighted to have picked up two awards at last night’s Chambers UK Bar Awards 2022. Jonathan Seitler KC won ‘Real Estate Silk of the Year‘! Clare Stanley KC won ‘Chancery Silk of the Year‘! A huge thank you to... Read more

Friday 18 November 2022

Recent Cases

Bond & anor v Webster & ors features in the Telegraph and the Daily Mail

Trusts, probate and estates: contentious

Clare Stanley KC
Thursday 17 November 2022

Webchats

Proprietary estoppel after Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27

John McGhee KC and Daniel Petrides discuss the Supreme Court’s recent re-casting of the law of proprietary estoppel in Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27. 

John McGhee KC | Daniel Petrides
Monday 14 November 2022

News

Paul Newman KC awarded the Wallace Medal

Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to congratulate Paul Newman KC for winning the Wallace Medal, presented at the Association of Pension Lawyers annual conference last night, for his title released earlier this year, ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to Correcting Mistakes in Pension Schemes’. For... Read more

Friday 11 November 2022

News

Tiffany Scott KC – New Chair of The Property Bar Association

Wilberforce Chambers congratulates Tiffany Scott KC on her appointment as Chair of the Property Bar Association. The appointment is a year’s term of office and Tiffany can stand for re-election twice.

Monday 7 November 2022

News

Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2023: “Wilberforce’s depth and breadth of expertise is among the best in the industry.”

We are delighted to announce our continued success in the latest edition of Chambers & Partners, highlighting collective strength across our core practice areas and the expertise and experience of members of chambers and staff. We are recognised as a... Read more

Tuesday 25 October 2022

Articles

Pension Trustee Companies: An Update after Lehtimäki [2020] UKSC 33

This article was published in Trust Law International, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2022 Click here to view the full article

By Robert Ham KC | David Pollard
Friday 21 October 2022

Articles

Re Snowden and the Charities Act 2022

To read and download this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Michael Furness KC. Re Snowden [1970] Ch 700 will be familiar to practitioners as the case which affirmed the principle, established in earlier case law, that the Attorney-General has... Read more

By Michael Furness KC
Thursday 20 October 2022

News

Stuart Isaacs KC has been appointed to the BVI International Arbitration Centre Panel of Arbitrators

We are delighted to announce that Stuart Isaacs KC has been appointed to the BVI International Arbitration Centre’s Panel of Arbitrators. For more information about the BVI Arbitration Centre, please click here.

Monday 17 October 2022

Recent Cases

Key Privy Council decision: Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd v Halabi

International / offshore, Insolvency, Trusts, probate and estates: contentious | Privy Council

Clare Stanley KC | James Goodwin
Thursday 13 October 2022