Ten Old Square

Private Client:Trusts and Probate, Private Client: Personal Tax, Court of Protection

Richard Dew’s practice is focussed on Wills, Estates and Trusts and related professional negligence. His practice is predominantly litigation, and he is frequently involved in large and complex claims. He also advises and represents in Court of Protection matters and provides expert advice in respect of tax and tax planning (principally capital taxation).

He is a former chair of the STEP Contentious Trusts and Estates SIG and is the treasurer of the Chancery Bar Association Committee. He also sits on the Law Society’s Wills and Equity Committee. He is a member of STEP and ACTAPS.

Richard is the editor of Private Client Business and an editor of Rossdale’s Administration of Estates. He regularly writes and lectures on chancery and private client matters.

Ranked as a Star individual in Chancery: Traditional and Band 1 in both Trusts and Court of Protection: Property & Affairs in Chambers UK 2022.

Richard has been appointed as a Deputy Master of the Chancery Division.

Qualified 1999. Co-author of Parker’s Modern Will Precedents (Eighth edition), Rossdale’s Administration of Estates (Fifth Edition) ‘Parker’s Will Precedents’, ‘Tolley’s Inheritance Tax Planning’, contributed to ‘Ranking, Spicer and Pegler’s Executorship Law, Trusts & Accounts’ (25th ed Butterworths), ‘The Land Registration Act 2002’ (Lexis Nexis).

Published articles include:

Brewster and the future for unmarried cohabitants, Lawskills (Feb 2017) Trusts & Disclosure (2011) PCB 241 Can TLATA be interpreted as a fiscal bill? (2009) TELTJ 106 A Wasted Opportunity (2007) 83 TELTJ 23 Extrinsic Evidence Rreturns (2006) 80 TELTJ 17 The Claimant’s share of blame (2006) 73 TELTJ 7

Chancery Bar Association; Law Society’s Wills and Equity Committee; STEP; ACTAPS.

Reading University (LLB First).