Led by Laura Alliss, Geldards LLP continues to gain market traction and regularly receives standalone mandates direct from clients, as well as in a referral capacity, in addition to receiving a regular pipeline of work as a corollary of the firm’s overarching private client department. Allis, who is an 'effective and diligent lawyer', has expertise across the gamut of litigation in the space, including on proprietary estoppel, undue influence and legacy disputes, where she is effectively able to leverage the expertise of the firm’s market-leading charities practice.

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'An excellent and focussed contentious probate team that covers all areas of related litigation.'
'Laura Alliss is an effective and diligent lawyer who is unafraid to push her clients' case in order to reach the best outcomes.'

Key clients

Tenovus Cancer Care
Wiccaweys Rescue Border Collies and Working Sheepdogs C.I.C
Wales Air Ambulance
Heart Research UK

Work highlights

Advised Tenovus Cancer Care and two other charities on a promissory estoppel claim which was brought by a third party in respect of an estate which had been left to charity.
Advising the executors of a £93m estate in a claim for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 brought by a cohabitee.
Assisting the wife of the deceased in a claim against the validity of her husband’s will which had been executed on the day he died and was a complex will which left his multi-million pound estate to a trust for the benefit of his nieces.

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Laura Alliss

Geldards LLP

Laura is a Partner who specialises in the area of disputed wills, trusts and probate. Laura is regularly instructed by charities, executors, trustees and beneficiaries in relation to the challenge of wills/trusts, disputes between executors/trustees and beneficiaries, claims for reasonable financial provision, court of protection proceedings and professional negligence claims. In 2018 Laura was recognised as a specialist in the field of contentious probate and trusts when she was accepted as a member of ACTAPS (the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists). Laura is also a member of the Court of Protection Practitioners Association (CoPPa).

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Laura Alliss

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Chloe Pridmore, Ella Harmer

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