Practice area
Wills, probate and the administration of estates, trusts and trustees, the Court of Protection and mental capacity, and charities.
OQD suffered a very serious assault in late 2013 which caused hypoxic brain damage. He was admitted to the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability in April 2014, moving from its Brain Injury Service to its Specialist Nursing Home in…
The Second Claimant, Cronus Finance Limited (now in administration), entered into a series of transaction documents on 27 October 2025 with Market Financial Solutions Ltd (MFS), a bridging loan lender and specialist property…
The Bisiker family fell into dispute about the beneficial ownership of 'Moonhills', a substantial five-bedroom property with 4.5 acres near Beaulieu in Hampshire, registered at HM Land Registry in the name of Judith Bisiker since…
The Tees Valley Islamic and Cultural Association is an unincorporated registered charity founded in 1985, running the Masjid-E-Nomira mosque and associated buildings at 44-46 Middlesborough Road, South Bank, Middlesborough. After…
RF, a 65-year-old man born and raised in Scotland, has two siblings living in the area where he grew up. Some 30 years ago he was involved in a road traffic accident, after which his behaviour became more volatile, although no…
Mr Wesley Warren, the applicant, is the son of Mrs Susan Ebanks, the respondent. The dispute concerned 30 Christchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea, registered in the respondent's sole name, and whether the applicant had a beneficial…
CW, aged 33, has a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder, cognitive deficits and epilepsy. She lived in the area of Scottish Borders Council until December 2022, latterly in supported accommodation at Z Court…
Grace Baillie Key died on 28 September 2022 aged 84, leaving a will dated 11 November 2014. Her two adult children, Laura and Richard Key, are the joint executors and sole beneficiaries. The principal assets are Ebury Lodge in…
The applicants, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, applied to the Court of Protection in respect of HH, a 30 year old woman then 37 weeks pregnant with…
LM is a middle-aged man with a longstanding diagnosis of moderate intellectual disability, whose IQ has been assessed at between 52 and 60, and who has lived in a residential placement since 2017. He had a troubled childhood…
CG is a 36 year old woman with a chronic severe psychiatric illness, principally anorexia nervosa, complicated by emotionally unstable personality disorder and features consistent with complex trauma. She has undergone repeated…
The claimant, Alicia Lopez Batiller, and the first defendant, Clive Edwards, are wife and husband, estranged for some years. The claimant occupies a property known as Hillcrest, Leeswood in Flintshire under an occupation order…
The claimant, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is the residuary beneficiary of the estate of Ms Margaret Anne Selby, who died on 20 November 2022 leaving a will dated 12 March 2020. By that will Ms Selby appointed as…
The claimants, Mrs Alison Corbel and Mrs Veronica Elsden, brought a claim under CPR Part 8 in September 2024 for the removal of their brother, Mr Nigel Golding, as executor of the will of their late mother, Yvonne Golding. The…
The applicant, Ms Claudia Nestola, brought a claim as representative of her late father, Fernando Nestola, who died in August 2018 while residing in a care home operated by the First Defendant, Leicestershire County Care Ltd. His…
The application arose from a long-running feud within the Hinduja family, which led the multinational Hinduja Group. Srichand Hinduja (SP), the eldest of four brothers, signed a lasting power of attorney for property and…
Northumbrian Water Limited (NWL) is the sponsoring employer of the Northumbrian Water Pension Scheme, which has been in significant deficit, funded at 81.5% as at the December 2022 valuation. Rules 4.9 and 4.10 of the WPS…
AC, a 20-year-old woman with a moderate learning disability, a genetic microduplication condition, impaired mobility and some visual impairment, travelled to Pakistan with her mother CA, her maternal grandmother BC and a family…
The appellant, Lexgreen Services Limited, established a trust in 2005 whose trustees were resident in Jersey. In 2020 HMRC issued Lexgreen with a notice of determination fixing it with liability to inheritance tax in respect of a…
UJ is a 45-year-old man who attempted to take his own life on 24 April 2026 by shooting himself in the head with a crossbow arrow, sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury. He was taken to St George's University Hospitals NHS…