Wilberforce Chambers

Wilberforce Chambers

Region Area

Barristers

Thomas Seymour

Thomas Seymour

Position

Highly experienced barrister and accredited mediator with a broad commercial chancery practice, with an emphasis on pensions; trusts; private client; property (and professional negligence related to those areas). His areas of work are pensions, principally advising on occupational pension schemes, including regulatory matters, pensions mis-selling and pensions liberation; trusts and private client, contentious trust litigation both in the United Kingdom and overseas (including Gibraltar and Cayman Islands); wills, contentious probate, estate and charities; property, real property disputes, contracts for sale or lease, title and boundaries, restrictive covenants, easements, mortgages, commercial landlord and tenant, and conveyancing; partnership and company law matters (including advising Financial Reporting Review Council on International Accounting Standards).

Career

Called 1975.

Memberships

Chancery Bar Association; Association of Pension Lawyers; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists.

Education

Magdalene College, Cambridge (1974 Law First Class Hons in Law); Squire Law Scholarship (1973) and the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence (1974).