Private Client
St Philips chambers’ provides a very modern forward thinking and proactive approach ensuring the highest quality of service to clients and businesses alike. Several members of chambers, who belong to the Private Client Group, have a more traditional chancery commercial practice with a strong emphasis on the following areas:
- Disputes as to the validity wills (testamentary capacity, knowledge and approval and undue influence)
- Applications/issues as to the construction of wills and trusts;
- Rectification of wills
- Contested Probate
- Applications for directions by administrators and trustees for directions in relation to wills and trusts;
- Actions for the removal of administrators or trustees;
- Claims against trustees/executors for breach of trust or breach of fiduciary duty;
- Applications in the Court of Protection;
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act claims;
- Professional negligence actions in relation to wills and trusts including disappointed beneficiary claims.
