Radcliffe Chambers

Piers Feltham has a general Chancery practice specialising in particular in property, private client, probate and trusts, capital taxes, landlord and tenant, mortgages and securities, pensions, company and commercial, insolvency, partnership, charities, court of protection, family provision, professional negligence and cohabitation.

Called 1985; Gray’s Inn. Winner of the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence at Cambridge University and Uthwatt scholar of Gray’s Inn. As an advocate he has been highly commended by a survey of litigation solicitors in The Lawyer magazine and he appears regularly in all courts up to the level of the Privy Council. Publications: ‘Spencer Bower on Reliance-Based Estoppel’ 5th ed (2016). Sample cases: Lake v Lake [1989] STC 865 (inheritance tax; deeds of variation); Jawara v Gambia Airways [1992] EGCS 54 Privy Council (land; agency); Pereira v Beanlands [1996] 3 AER 528 (proprietary estoppel; procedural default); Cork v Cork [1997] 1 EGLR 5 (landlord and tenant; joint ownership); Gardener v Lewis [1998] 1 WLR 1535 Privy Council (conveyancing); Lloyd’s Bank v Hawkins [1998] 3 EGLR 109 (mortgage; banking); Re W [2000] Ch 372 (Court of Protection); Moore’s (Wallisdown) Ltd v Pensions Ombudsman [2002] 1 WLR 1649 (pensions); Colonial Fire & General Ins Co ltd v Harry [2006] UKPC 53 (Privy Council; insurance); Connell v Connell [2008] UKPC 44 (Privy Council: trusts); Re East Grinstead Working Men’s Club [2011] WTLR 975 (charity); Re Huntley [2014] EWHC 547 (Ch) (construction/rectification of will); Re Savile [2014] EWCA Civ 1632 (administration of estates; insolvency) Re LM [2015] EWCOP 91 (Court of Protection); Blades v Isaac [2016] WTLR 589 (trustees’ costs).

Charity Law Association; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists; Chancery Bar Association; STEP.

Winchester College; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA (Hons)).