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Simon Taube KC KC
Work Department
Private Client: Trusts and Probate, Private Client: Personal Tax, Charities
Position
Barrister specialising in Chancery work (both litigation and advisory work) with special expertise in the fields of trusts, estates and tax, professional negligence, partnership, charity, real property, Inheritance Act claims;
Career
Qualified 1980, Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn; QC 2000.
Important cases include: Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing [2017] EWCA Civ 74, [2015] EWHC 2366: Data Protection Act and trusts; Davidson v Seelig [2016]: Protector’s powers and court’s trust jurisdiction; Crociani v Crociani and others [2014] UKPC 40: contentious breach of trust claim; Re Nina Wang [2014] HKCA: charitable trust and company law; The Warburg Institute [2014]; construction of trust deed; Re: The Law Society [2014]; Buzzoni v HMRC [2013] CA: HT and unjust enrichment; Labrouche v Frey [2012] CA: breach of trust, abuse of process; In the Matter of the A Trust [2012] Bermuda: trust jurisdiction clauses; A-G’s Poverty Reference [2011] public benefit in charity; Fattal v Walbrook [2010] trustee exoneration clause.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Revenue Bar Association; STEP.
Education
Westminster School; Merton College, Oxford (1978 Modern History 1st); Diploma in Law.
Leisure
Singing, tennis.
Lawyer Rankings
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 2London Bar > Charities
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Taube KC –Ten Old Square ‘Simon is intensely intelligent and highly focussed. His attention to the finer details is a joy to behold.’
London Bar > Private wealth and probate
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 1Simon Taube KC –Ten Old Square ‘Simon is excellent in his field, technically astute and very responsive.’
Ten Old Square is ‘a leading set on private wealth and probate matters’. The ‘intellectually rigorous’ Simon Taube KC is currently assisting the trustees of Cadogan Trusts with the appointments of altered beneficial trusts, replacement trustees and applications to vary the trusts. Georgia Bedworth, who is ‘excellent at complex trust problems, particularly with property issues’, recently acted for the trustees in Cloke v Carington, a case concerning the extension of the perpetuity and accumulation period under the Variation of Trusts Act. Susannah Meadway is ‘an intellectual powerhouse’ and highly recommended.