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Francis Ng is a chancery practitioner specialising in private client work.

Cases of note: Cadogan v Cadogan [2020] EWHC 2714 (Ch); re Cadogan [2021] WTLR 411; Clarke v Allen [2019] EWHC 1193 and 1194 (Ch); Yechiel v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 683 (TC); Thornton v Woodhouse [2017] EWHC 769 (Ch).

Academic posts: Francis taught trusts law for over half a decade at UCL and Oxford, including as a lecturer in St Catherine’s College, Oxford.

Other legal work: Francis is a former consultant to the private client department at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, and a former judicial assistant to Lady Justice Arden (as she then was).

Publications of note: ‘Success fees under the Inheritance Act’ [2020] PCB 172; ‘Saving litigants from themselves: mandatory early neutral evaluations in the English courts [2019] PCB 185; ‘Unintended Consequences’ [2019] TELTJ 17; ‘“Common intention” constructive trusts arising from informal agreements to dispose of land’ [2017] Conv 146 (with Toby Boncey); ‘Property Realised after Completion of an Individual Voluntary Arrangement’ (2016) 29(6) Insolvency Intelligence 92 (with Simon Jones); ‘The rule in Hastings-Bass, Mistake, and Tax Avoidance: Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter’ [2013] BTR 566; ‘Case Comment: re St Andrew’s (Cheam) Lawn Tennis Club Trust’ [2014] T&T 287 (with Toby Boncey

Chancery Bar Association

Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (full member)

Attorney General’s C-panel of junior counsel to the Crown.

BCL (distinction), St Peter’s College, Oxford (2012)

BPTC (outstanding), University of the West of England (2011)

MA (distinction), University of Bristol (2010)