Russell-Cooke LLP

Trust and estate disputes.

Partner specialising in all types of trust and estate/succession-related litigation, including will validity challenges, family provision claims, trustee disputes and claims for rectification and constructions of wills. Also professional negligence arising from these areas.

Has a particular interest in estates with a cross-border element.

Reported cases include Scarfe v Matthews [2012} EWHC 3071 (Ch) and Brennan v Prior [2013] EWHC 2867 (Ch).

Also acts in matters involving contested Court of Protection proceedings including disputed lifetime gifts, statutory wills, attorney/deputy disputes and financial abuse.

Trained Pritchard Englefield - qualified 2006;

Pritchard Englefield 2006-2008

Russell-Cooke 2008 to date (partner 2015)

Publications of note: published in Solicitors Journal and Elder Law Journal, contributed to International Protection of Adults, OUP, 2015

President – South London Law Society

French.

Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)

STEP

South London Law Society

City of London Solicitors’ Company

University of East Anglia - LLB Law with French Law and Language (2001)

Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) - LLM French Law and European Law (2002)

College of Law, London - PG Dip Legal Practice (2004)