Financial Remedies Update Autumn 2025 Suzanne Kelly and Kane Deitsch Private Children Update 2025 Nicola Holland and Ruth Matthews Public Law Update 2025 Christine Julien and Dominique Gillan
Guildford Chambers invites you to the third in our current series of webinars: Landlord and Tenant 2025 : cases you may have missed on Tuesday 2nd December at 4.30 pm Laura Smallwood will review some of this year’s landlord and tenant cases which may not have hit the legal headlines, but are nonetheless worth knowing...
Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (ToLATA) series, part 3. The importance of the common intention and how to prove it.
12 November 2025
This webinar will Explore the unpredictable nature of the ‘common intention’ element of constructive trusts and how some recent judgments have arrived at the answer. By Rowan Morton Please see the link to our YouTube Channel to watch this webinar – Rowan Morton Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 ToLATA series, part...
By Andrew Chalmers If you have been on LinkedIn within the last month or so, you may have noticed that the decision in Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) has caused a fairly strong and divided reaction. On one side of the aisle you have paralegals and legal executives, especially...
Please see the link to our YouTube channel for the first of four webinars – Translated Witness Statements: Procedures and Pitfalls – Jamie Walker- Haworth – YouTube
Legal 500 2026
3 October 2025
Dominique Gillan – ‘Dominique, who is erudite, calm, professional, and good with lay clients and judges, and regularly handles high-value financial remedy cases.’ ‘Dominique is committed to client care of the highest standard and is highly experienced in Children Act proceedings.’ Laura Smallwood – ‘Laura is very responsive, thorough in her preparation and...
Olivia Crego-Bustelo
2 October 2025
We are pleased welcome Olivia Crego-Bustelo as member of Chambers following the successful completion of her pupillage.
By Rowan Morton HHJ Matthews sitting as a High Court Judge gave Judgment yesterday following a costs application following a split trial liability only hearing, in what he described as tragic family litigation. https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2025/1711.html Sheila Wills had 9 children, six of whom survived her. At the time of her death in April 2020 one of...
By Dominique Gillan We are well familiar with the rules and practice directions dealing with vulnerable parties in family proceedings. But what about the less frequently encountered position of a party who lacks litigation capacity? The starting point is the Mental Capacity Act 2005 which provides as follows: S1 Principles …… A person must...
By Rowan Morton What constitutes a “subsequent agreement” to an express declaration of trust? Back in 2007 the landmark case of Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17 saw the Supreme Court establish a general rule that an express declaration of trust is conclusive unless varied by a subsequent agreement (or affected by proprietary estoppel, fraud...
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