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• Contentious probate (disputes concerning wills and inheritance).
• Court of Protection Applications (including acting as Professional Deputy).
• Estate administration (including upon death and dealing with applications for Grant of Probate and HMRC returns).
• Estate planning.
• Family business succession strategies (including corporate wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney).
• Inheritance tax.
• Lasting Powers of Attorney (including acting as Professional Attorney).
• Modern blended families.
• Personal injury trusts.
• Philanthropy (including setting up charities).
• Trust administration (including acting as Professional Trustee).
• Wealth protection (including for future generations).
• Will drafting.

• Asset safeguarding (including pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and relationship/cohabitation agreements).
• Building families (including advice on surrogacy, adoption, donation and co-parenting or platonic parenting arrangements, as well as legal parenthood).
• Child abduction and international children disputes (including cross-jurisdictional contact, international surrogacy and relocation).
• Child arrangement issues (including where and with whom children will live and spend time, grandparent and step-parent visitation, applications for ‘kinship care’ and special guardianship orders).
• Complex children issues (including parental alienation, medical and education disputes, domestic abuse and coercive and controlling behaviour).
• Cultural and religious issues (including legal status of marriage and divorce, financial settlements and rites of passage for children).
• Divorce and separation (helping you to choose the right path).
• Enforcement of financial and children orders.
• Enforcement of financial orders (including committal for non-compliance).
• Financial settlements after relationship breakdown (including financial remedy and property dispute TOLATA proceedings).
• International family law (including relationship status and wealth protection, recognition of marriage and divorce as well as international financial settlements on divorce).
• Legal parenthood (addressing queries and disputes surrounding legal parenthood and parental responsibility, including Declarations of Parentage/Non-Parentage).
• Pre-relationship advice (including wealth protection, family building and understanding the legal implications of relationship status).
• Spousal and child maintenance order variation.
• Unmarried family advice (including cohabitation agreements and financial arrangements on separation, financial support for children and child arrangements).

The unauthorised disclosure of personal data can be distressing and have an enormous impact on your life — especially if it’s released into the public domain.

Often, the full implications of a breach may not be discovered for some time after it has occurred. In such circumstances, legal damages are available in cases where the only impact of a data breach is the distress you’ve suffered — but this is a complex area of law to navigate.

We go the extra mile to maximise your chances of successfully bringing or defending a claim. Our team has the legal expertise, practical advice and support you need to manage the consequences that may arise as a result of a breach and address any associated damage claims.

We offer an array of bespoke funding options to suit your needs and case.

• Agricultural litigation and dispute resolution.
• Buying, selling or renting property (including all legal aspects of property transactions for residential, agricultural, commercial or landed estates).
• Construction and planning matters.
• Environmental issues.
• Farming partnerships.
• Health and safety.
• Issues with property ownership or lettings (dealing with any problems related to owning or renting a property, such as disputes or landlord and tenant issues).
• Land and farm sale and purchase.
• Mines and minerals.
• Planning and development.
• Tenancies.

Investigations & criminal proceedings

Whether you face an investigation from the police, HMRC or another agency, early management of your case is crucial.

Since cases are won and lost at the investigation stage, failing to access the right advice when facing a request for interview under caution may not only result in avoidable charges being brought but can also be fatal to the merits of any defence.

We have a proven track record of advising very high-profile individuals and managing the resulting publicity. While in some cases criminal proceedings are unavoidable, we have a demonstrable record of achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Professional conduct

Our professional conduct team comprises specialist lawyers with market-leading expertise in defending regulated professionals. Our expertise spans medicine, teaching, the legal sector and accountancy, along with many others.

We fight hard for you — providing pragmatic, sensitive advice to guide you through each stage of the process.

Working closely with colleagues in our criminal and employment teams, we provide a holistic service and address each of the jeopardies that a professional under investigation can face.

Privacy management & media relations

Being the subject of adverse press coverage can be irreversibly damaging. Whether you’re an individual, business or brand, the knock-on impact of a negative story can result in both reputational and financial harm. 

Whether you need advice pre-publication or you’ve already been thrust into the media spotlight, we recognise the need for swift intervention and strategic advice to ensure that your rights are protected.

We’re experienced in liaising with both local and national press outlets to stem the harmful effects of media scrutiny at an early stage with a view to securing retractions, apologies, damages or other such remedies to best preserve public relations and hold the press to account. 

This led to our team being recognised as Crisis Management Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Defamation, libel & slander

Defamatory comments can arise in all manner of forms — whether on social media, in the editorial press or even in autobiographical text. 

A single publication can quickly gain exponential traction and single-handedly obliterate the personal or professional reputation of an individual or business. 

Accordingly, it’s crucial that early corrective action is taken to prevent further reputational damage. In this fast-paced and technical area of law, our defamation and privacy team boasts a wealth of experienced media lawyers with strong track records in handling confidential issues for high-profile clients across the entertainment, sport, political and technology arenas. 

We’re adept in identifying the most effective strategy to counteract the negative impact of a defamatory allegation — from PR strategies to securing injunctive relief and issuing proceedings.

We're ranked in the top tier of The Legal 500 for media and entertainment lawyers and boast the team that won the 'Wagatha Christie' trial.

Personal information & data breaches

The unauthorised disclosure of personal data can be distressing and have an enormous impact on your life — especially if it’s released into the public domain. 

Often, the full implications of a breach may not be discovered for some time after it has occurred. In such circumstances, legal damages are available in cases where the only impact of a data breach is the distress you’ve suffered — but this is a complex area of law to navigate. 

We go the extra mile to maximise your chances of successfully bringing or defending a claim. Our team has the legal expertise, practical advice and support you need to manage the consequences that may arise as a result of a breach and address any associated damage claims. 

We offer an array of bespoke funding options to suit your needs and case.

Access to justice

• Civil injury claims and criminal injuries compensation claims.
• Claims against the Police.
• Familial inquest representation.
• Private prosecutions.

• Access to justice (seeking justice and compensation for victims).
• Commercial litigation. 
• Counselling support.
• Defamation/libel/slander.
• Grant of Probate/Letters of Administration.
• Investigations and criminal defence proceedings.
• Mediation.
• Medical negligence arising from treatment provided by GPs, NHS Hospitals, private hospitals, care homes, dentists, pharmacists, opticians, private doctors and surgeons.
• Personal information and data breaches.
• Private investigations and prosecutions.
• Professional conduct or disciplinary matters.
• Rehabilitation.
• Reputation and privacy management (including media relations).
• Seeking justice and compensation for victims of crime.
• Serious personal injury arising on the road, in the workplace, in public or on private property.
• Welfare benefit advice and personal injury trusts.

• Addressing wrongful termination, discrimination or harassment cases.
• Business immigration and Visa advice.
• Complex employment tribunal cases.
• Supporting professionals and executives with exits and new employment contracts or agreements.