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    Court of Appeal makes important ruling on inheritance tax gift with reservation provisions

    The Estate of Lady Hood v Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2018] EWCA Civ 2405 Jonathan Davey QC has acted successfully for the Respondents in an important inheritance tax dispute before the Court of Appeal. The case concerned the late... Read more

    Friday 2 November 2018

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    Recent Cases

    Ravin Ramkissoon v Estate Management & Business Development Co Ltd

    International / offshore, Commercial disputes | The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago Court of Appeal

    David Phillips KC
    Wednesday 31 October 2018

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    The Legal 500 2019: Wilberforce is a set of ‘top-flight barristers’

    The latest edition of The Legal 500 UK has been released and Wilberforce has had another successful year. We have three top-tier set rankings and are recommended as a leading set in a further eight practice areas. We have 135... Read more

    Tuesday 30 October 2018

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    Construing the true extent of access rights to be granted for use of land

    By Zoë Barton KC
    Monday 29 October 2018

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    Wilberforce wins Real Estate Chambers of the Year and Chancery Chambers of the Year

    We are delighted to have won two awards at last night’s Chambers Bar Awards ceremony: Real Estate Chambers of the Year and Chancery Chambers of the Year. The awards are based on the research for the 2019 edition of Chambers... Read more

    Friday 26 October 2018

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    Estates Gazette Podcast: Joanne Wicks QC and Benjamin Faulkner discuss S Franses

    Next week, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal of S Franses v Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd [2017] EWHC 1670 (QB); [2017] EGLR 34 – a major case in respect of the operation of section 30(1)(f) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Joanne... Read more

    Friday 12 October 2018

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    Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd v European Medicines Agency

    Joanne Wicks QC and Jonathan Chew are acting for Canary Wharf Group in its dispute with the European Medicines Agency (Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 Ltd v European Medicines Agency). Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE QC is dealing with European Law... Read more

    Wednesday 10 October 2018

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    British Legal Awards: Wilberforce shortlisted

    We are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for Chambers of the Year at the Legal Week British Legal Awards – celebrating achievement, excellence and innovation in the legal profession.  In choosing the finalists, the judges have assessed legal... Read more

    Wednesday 3 October 2018

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    TRI Awards: Wilberforce Shortlisted

    The TRI (Turnaround, Restructuring & Insolvency) Awards finalists have been revealed and Wilberforce has been shortlisted in the brand new Insolvency & Restructuring Chambers of the Year category, recognising our continued success in this area. The winners will be announced... Read more

    Tuesday 2 October 2018

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    Legal Cheek Awards: Wilberforce shortlisted

    The results of the Legal Cheek Junior Barrister survey have been released and Wilberforce has scored highly, meaning we will be shortlisted in two categories of their 2019 Awards: Best Chambers for Training Best Chambers for Quality of Work The... Read more

    Monday 1 October 2018

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    New tenants: Cara Goldthorpe and Jia Wei Lee

    Wilberforce is delighted to announce that Cara Goldthorpe and Jia Wei Lee have joined Chambers as full tenants following a successful period of training and evaluation during their pupillages. They will practise in our core specialist areas. For further information... Read more

    Thursday 27 September 2018

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    The FA v Roy Higginbotham – Appeal Board

    On 25 July 2018 David Phillips QC chaired a FA Appeal Board in the case of Roy Higginbotham.  Mr Higginbotham was a Life President of Macclesfield Town FA.  On 6 January 2018 during a lunch in the Board Room before... Read more

    Monday 17 September 2018

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