Chancery: Traditional

Penelope is incredibly knowledgeable and confident. Her attention to detail and strategic thinking set her out from others in this area.

Penelope Reed distils very difficult sets of facts and circumstances. She offers a very careful and considered view.

Penelope Reed is one of the leading KCs in contentious estates. She is doing a mix of onshore and offshore work. She is very clever and a truly lovely person.

David has always been seen as one of the foremost experts in the area. He's great to work with: straightforward, pleasant, professional, great with clients and a great all-rounder.

David Rees's advice and good sense are second to none, and his technical knowledge is unsurpassed.

David is particularly good at explaining complicated stuff in clear terms. He is always very nice and is very smart.

Edward Hewitt is excellent with clients, bringing clarity and confidence to even the most challenging situations. He consistently produces creative and complex solutions, and is always completely on top of the detail.

Edward is very willing to talk issues through and to give his view; his approach is very user-friendly.

Edward is a very rigorous thinker but he also applies his advice in a very commercial and practical way, which means clients really like to have him in their corner.

Henry Legge is absolutely charming to work with. He is one of the brightest at the Bar and very quick. He comes up with really fascinating arguments which are cutting-edge. He is very creative in his arguments and the way he presents them. He thinks outside the box and is one of the most experienced, bringing novel solutions to complex issues. He's very good in terms of responsiveness; he is very busy but super responsive.

Henry is a brilliant, charming barrister. Clients love him and he's very good on his feet in front of a judge. A great team worker, a great strategist and a really excellent operator.

Henry has a rare intelligence and is unusually insightful. He has an incredible knack of using his intellect and modest charm that works well with clients. He has a terrific bedside manner, is adaptable to clients and has emotional intelligence.

Luke Harris is on some big cases and is very capable. He is really excellent.

Luke Harris is very thorough. He is an all-rounder who looks at issues holistically and leaves no stone unturned while being very commercial.

Luke is extremely thorough and extremely helpful. He is proactive with issues.

Shân is reassuringly experienced and is an incredibly steady hand with such incredible experience in strategy. She is always looking four or five steps ahead, and her advice is based on that foresight.

Shân has that gravitas as someone who has been around a long time.

Shân Warnock-Smith is very good under pressure and has a very good manner. In court, she has a good way with the judges.

Tracey's attention to detail and skills in cross-examination are unparalleled.

Tracey is superb, both technically and strategically.

Tracey Angus is extremely bright and thorough in her advice and very robust. She has a very good reputation.

Francis is great – he's really knowledgeable and clear. He gives sound, pragmatic advice, and he cuts through the peripheral issues and gets to the heart quite quickly.

Francis is excellent – he's really good in court, very good on the papers, and provides a quick turnaround.

Francis Ng is pragmatic, strategic and very personable.

Jordan is very clever, sensible, quick, and efficient in turning things around. He's practical, decisive and gets the right answer fast.

Jordan has exceptional IQ and EQ. He fights his client’s corner fiercely and has exceptional knowledge of this area of law. His advice cuts through issues to reach the best possible outcome for his client.

Jordan Holland is absolutely fantastic. He has expertise in several key areas: art and cultural property, trusts and traditional chancery. He’s phenomenally intelligent and good with clients. He’s also a fierce advocate.

Mark is a probate specialist who clients will confidently follow.

Mark Baxter is very clear and very pragmatic. He is easy to deal with and cuts through the background noise to the heart of the issues.

Mark Baxter is responsive and provides valued expertise.

Rose is very efficient, incredibly bright and responsive – everything you want in a barrister.

Rose has an excellent reputation for being clever, reliable and responsive.

Rose Fetherstonhaugh is super clever. She gets hold of material very quickly and is very user-friendly.

Rose is exceptional. Her attention to detail is second to none. I have no hesitation in sending anything her way. She is empathetic and good with clients, as well as being very good at communicating with lay people.

Sarah is absolutely great. She is such a good lawyer and easy to work with.

Sarah Haren is user-friendly and has a really calm but commanding demeanour in court.

Sarah is a clever barrister. She is very user-friendly and manages brilliant turnaround times.

Clients and solicitors adore Toby Bishop because he provides thoughtful, sensitive and commercial advice. He is an excellent strategist and an exceptional advocate.

Toby is really excellent. He is very good with clients, a very good advocate, very approachable, easy to work with, clever and strategically good as well.

Toby is an outstanding barrister. He is consistently attentive, with excellent attention to detail and a well-rounded skill set across both advisory work and advocacy. He inspires confidence from the outset and can be relied upon in all aspects of a matter.

Toby is a wonderful advocate. He is calm and considered, giving clients confidence in his advice. In court he is very effective, and his drafting is spot on.

Toby is knowledgeable, approachable and great with clients. He is technically excellent and fantastic on his feet.

William is great – really practical, very good with clients, and a pleasure to work with on a team. He is also very collaborative.

William East is very calm, sensible, pragmatic and always has a clear plan to resolve things.

William is great at handling clients and has really strong knowledge of the law. He pleads a case in a really clear and succinct way.

Alexander Drapkin is particularly strong on Inheritance Tax and is good with lay clients. He's a really strong barrister for complex estates with fiddly Inheritance Tax stuff. He can translate complexity in an easy way to lay people.

Alex is very user-friendly, good with clients and technically strong.

Alex thrives in complexity. He relishes the nuanced, multi-layered disputes that demand real intellectual rigour. He gets to the nub of an issue with impressive speed, refuses to be distracted by noise, and is never afraid to fight his corner on a difficult point. As an advocate, he combines that analytical sharpness with genuine tenacity.

Eliza Eagling is a true star and one to watch. She is really brilliant on Court of Protection matters.

Eliza Eagling is really clever. Exceptionally so, and she has very good instincts about cases and how to fight them.

Hugh is knowledgeable, reliable, approachable and eloquent. He always feels like a safe pair of hands.

Hugh is exceptionally strong at the technical details on tricky areas of law. He advises clients in a down-to-earth way and does quick thinking on his feet.

Hugh Cumber manages to be supremely approachable, exceptionally knowledgeable, calm under pressure, and a very helpful, patient sounding board when matters get complicated.

Hugh is capable of distilling large amounts of factual and legal information into easily understandable bullet points. He always has an eye on the bigger picture.

Mathew has an enviable ability to cut straight to the heart of a case. He doesn't get distracted by peripheral noise. He identifies the real issues, locks on to them, and builds his strategy around them. That clarity of focus translates directly into results for the client. His advocacy reflects the same discipline: economical, purposeful, and devastatingly effective when it matters. He doesn't waste a word and he doesn't waste a judge's time, which is exactly what you want.

Mathew is very efficient, and he delivers clear and effective advice focused on the outcome. He makes a thorough and realistic assessment of the merits of a case and has great attention to detail.

Mathew Roper is very thorough. He manages clients very well in emotional situations and is very eloquent in presenting clients' cases.

Sam Chandler is one of the brightest barristers out there and is easy to deal with.

Sam is a thoughtful, intelligent and wonderfully collaborative lawyer. He is a delight to work with.

Sam is clever, hard-working and has lots of common sense.

Elis Gomer is able to relax clients and is very personable with them while being commercial. His written work is excellent.

Elis is superb. He is absolutely brilliant with clients and solicitors. He negotiates brilliantly for his clients while giving spot-on advice. He also brings a wonderful sense of humour to the very difficult and emotional circumstances that clients involved in contested probate claims find themselves in. He manages difficult impasses well and has a real in-depth knowledge of the law and procedure.

Elis is an excellent advocate who combines strong technical ability with a calm and measured approach. He is effective in mediation and court, presenting arguments clearly and persuasively. He has a reassuring manner with clients and demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement throughout. His written work is also excellent and he ensures that the advice provided is clear and succinct. Elis is very approachable and collaborative, making him a trusted and reliable choice on complex matters.

Matthew is dual-qualified in the Bahamas and England. He gets into all the big offshore cases because he is called in Cayman and in the Bahamas, so he has a unique selling point. He is also really good on his feet.

Matthew Paton is an encyclopaedia on Bahamian trust law. He obviously has that core encyclopaedia of trust law which is very much his specialty, but now that he’s founded his own firm in the Bahamas, he’s an all-rounder.

Michael O'Sullivan produces work of an exceptionally high standard at an incredible rate of speed. He is very efficient.