Jacqueline A Smart

Chancery Law, both advisory work and litigation (including Land Registry Adjudications). Also member of Chambers' Business, Agriculture and Mental Health Groups. Jacqueline has a specialist interest in the following:-

Land law including restrictive covenants, easements, rights of way, sale of land Equity and trusts including constructive trusts and proprietary estoppel Wills, succession, administration of estates and family provision claims Landlord and tenant Partnership Professional negligence in chancery related matters APPOINTMENTS

Deputy District Judge 2002

MEMBERSHIPS Chancery Bar Association Northern Chancery Bar Association Bar Pro Bono Unit Middle Temple LECTURES & SEMINARS 2011 "Contentious Probate" - Solicitors For the Elderly (Teesside). 2009 “Proprietary Estoppel – There is a Limit” (as part of the Chancery and Commercial Seminar at Sunderland, Teesside, Carlisle and Newcastle), 2008 Tees Valley Law Society Seminar “A Trust In The Family – Practical And Conveyancing Implications” (Constructive Trusts in the context of cohabitees and family members). 2004 “Securing Provision from an Estate – Aiming at the Right Target”, topics “The Substantial Validity of Wills, and “Family Provision” (Teesside and Newcastle). 2001 “Benefit Of Land Covenants - Contracts (Rights Of Third Parties Acts) 1999” and “Lands Tribunal Applications“ as part of Seminar on Restrictive Covenants (Carlisle and Whitehaven). EDUCATION

LLB King’s College London

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 

Between 2000 - 2012 Member of Legal Services Commission Funding Review Panel (adjudicating on appeals from refusal of public funding).

Teaching part-time on the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) at Northumbria University including Chancery option.

Dame Allans’ Girls School, Newcastle upon Tyne; King’s College, London.