Private Clients, Trusts & Probate

What our Private Clients, Trusts & Probate Barristers offer

Kings Chambers has a specialist Wills and Trusts Group with a dedicated team of counsel providing advice and representation across an extensive range of practice areas. 

Work undertaken includes:

• Drafting Wills, Trusts and related documentation
• Tax/Estate planning
• Validity of Wills and Trusts
• Interpretation of Wills and Trusts
• Rectification
• Testamentary Capacity and Want of Knowledge and Approval
• Undue Influence
• Mutual Wills
• Practice and Procedure on Grants/Administration
• Powers and Duties of Personal Representatives and Trustees
• Claims by and against Personal Representatives and Trustees
• Removal of Personal Representatives and Trustees
• Practice and Procedure under CPR 57 and CPR 64
• Insolvent Estates
• Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims
• Charities, including charitable trusts of land
• Trusts of property and co-ownership
• Related professional negligence

What the directories say about our Private Clients,Trusts & Probate Barristers

Chambers UK 2019

“Kings Chambers is widely recognised as a leading name for chancery work in the North and sources note the set for its impressive group of barristers. "Everybody we've worked with at Kings in the chancery section has been good, they’re one of our go-to sets," says an interviewee, adding: "You just get the impression of quality across the board really. You've got confidence in them as a set." Members of chambers assist clients with commercial and traditional chancery cases, including contentious trusts and probate matters and property and finance disputes.”

Client service:

"The clerking is excellent. They have always been good, responsive and knowledgeable, and they can always find someone who is the right fit."

"The clerking is efficient and helpful."