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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Leading Commercial Chancery Silk Thomas Grant KC joins Wilberforce

    Wilberforce Chambers is delighted to announce that Thomas Grant KC has joined Chambers from Friday 7th October 2022. Tom is a leading commercial chancery silk who received the “Chancery Silk of The Year” award from Chambers & Partners in 2021.... Read more

    Friday 7 October 2022

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    Wilberforce and Joanne Wicks KC win at The Legal 500 Awards 2022

    We are absolutely delighted to have picked up two awards at last night’s The Legal 500 Awards! Wilberforce Chambers was awarded ‘Chancery Set of the Year’, and Joanne Wicks KC won the ‘Property Silk of the Year’ award for a... Read more

    Thursday 6 October 2022

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    The Legal 500 2023: “Wilberforce Chambers is a first rate set with a growing number of excellent barristers”

    The Legal 500 have released their 2023 UK Bar Guide, and we are proud to have achieved a record number of rankings. We have two top-tier set rankings and are recommended as a leading set in a further eight practice... Read more

    Thursday 29 September 2022

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    Challenging Office Holder Decisions After Baglan Operations Limited [2022] EWHC 647 (CH)

    This article was first published in ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine Issue 10. Click here to view the full article  

    By Thomas Robinson | Daniel Scott | Daniel Petrides
    Monday 26 September 2022

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