Chancery: Traditional

Constance is extremely impressive, both in her grasp of issues and opportunities, and in her written work and her client manner. She's an invaluable asset in any team.

Constance McDonnell is the best probate silk. She knows the probate world inside out.

Constance is exceptional. She is absolutely brilliant with clients but also has a brilliant way of winning an argument without the other party even realising they are conceding. She is razor sharp.

Dakis Hagen is phenomenally hard-working, remarkably thorough and enthusiastic about the area. He is a very skilled advocate and applied individual.

He is pre-eminent. His reputation precedes him. Dakis is phenomenally bright but so pragmatic. He is really nice to work with and responsive as well.

Dakis is probably one of the best, strongest all-rounders you will find. He is such a charming and effective advocate but with unbelievable intellectual power which he wears quite lightly.

Dakis is excellent: he thoroughly understands the law, but is tactically flexible and pragmatic with it.

Dakis Hagen is a perfect combination of being a pleasure to deal with and strong both on his feet and on paper.

Elizabeth Jones is a titan. She is brilliant in how she can unravel really knotty situations, and she is direct and clear and has the ear of the court.

Elizabeth is phenomenal. She is unflappable. She cuts through all the nonsense and comes up with solutions everyone is looking for.

Elizabeth Jones is formidable. Clients absolutely love her, and judges are persuaded by what is just a whirlwind of advocacy from her.

Emma Hargreaves is really excellent. She gets up to speed quickly and has a natural instinct for arguments that will work.

Emma is all over the detail in complicated cases and can distil the tricky issues. She is also very responsive and keeps us up to date.

Emma Hargreaves is absolutely at silk level. She is the best chancery junior out there. She is brilliant to work with, gets on top of client objectives and thinks laterally to achieve their aims.

Emma is thorough, thoroughly knowledgeable and personable.

I am really in awe of her brain. She has a brilliant practice.

Richard has been involved in big cases. One of the things that I picked up working with him is his invaluable ability to approach cases from a novel angle and come up with effective solutions.

Richard Wilson is excellent. He is what you want a leader to be in a case. He works well with his junior and has a real gravitas with clients.

Richard Wilson is an elite barrister: experienced, incisive and with a fantastic client-side manner.

Giles blends excellent insight and understanding of the law with a ready commercial and tactical vision.

Giles Richardson is an outstanding silk. He is super bright and a complete master of all the details. He also has a strategic nose, which is one of the most important qualities.

Giles is brilliant to work with. He is incredibly strategic and focused, and great fun to work with too.

James works tirelessly for his clients and is very robust. What is good about him is that he has a lot of commercial experience, which helps for trusts.

James Weale is incredibly busy, with a phenomenal work product.

He is very, very good, and crosses the domestic and international probate divide. He is also extremely hard-working and has an inexhaustible supply of enthusiasm.

He definitely knows his way around this area and is great to work with. If I had issues with probate and succession, he is definitely someone I would go to.

Thomas Fletcher's drafting is reliable and sensible. Everyone is pleased to be working with him.

Thomas Fletcher is very, very good technically. He also has a good manner with clients. He is responsive and he is aware of all the twists and turns in a case.

Thomas is probably the most academically gifted junior I have ever worked with. He is a walking encyclopedia, but also an incredibly normal bloke and easy to deal with.

Thomas Fletcher is very incisive. He covers the right points but doesn't pad things out. He has good strategic insight.

Harry Martin is robust and responsive. He is someone you want in your corner. He is a tremendous asset to instructing solicitors.

He is brilliant, totally on top of the material and the law, and works really hard. He is highly effective in court and is reassuring for clients.

Harry Martin is just extremely bright, a wonderful draftsman and wonderful with clients.

Harry Martin is the most client-friendly barrister I have interacted with. Clients love him and cannot believe he is a barrister.

Harry Martin is always available to help and shows impressive experience and wisdom for his years.

He is an absolute pleasure to work with. He is extremely capable and also well liked by clients. A go-to KC for trust disputes.

John has a way of presenting to the court which the judges really respond to well across chancery and commercial matters.

John can advise on the full spectrum on offshore trusts work. He is just so user-friendly, incredibly responsive, and clients like him. He is straightforward and efficient.

Jonathan is extremely industrious and has the valuable ability to sort out good points from bad ones. His oral arguments in court are well presented, structured and pithy.

Jonathan Adkin is extremely impressive. He gives a clear view, he's approachable and contactable, and he is interested in your view. Also, his advocacy is exceptional.

Jonathan Harris has that total encyclopedic knowledge when it comes to trust matters and conflict of laws. He is a genuinely brilliant communicator and is hugely authoritative.

Oliver is so impressive. He is a silk in the making. He is really amazing on difficult international litigation. He is quick on his feet too - a great advocate.

Oliver Jones is an excellent strategist and he rolls up his sleeves and gets into it. He also has a great rapport with clients.

Stephanie Thompson is very skilful, diplomatic and utterly reliable. If you have a really difficult judgement call to make, she will be the right person to go to.

Her written advice and submissions are the most clear and approachable. She is highly commercial and sophisticated.

I definitely would instruct her again. She is really everything you need in a barrister - a star of the future.

Zahler Bryan is a real rising star of the future.

Zahler Bryan excels in the most complex of disputes, providing succinct advice. She is extremely approachable, and her advice is always geared to the nub of the issue.

Gregor Hogan is an outstanding junior. He works incredibly hard and really knows his stuff. He just gets on with things and is able to work through the knottiest problems.

Jamie is exceptionally bright and has a background in financial services, which is great for cases with complex equity aspects.

James Randall is a really good junior. He has a great financial background so he gets the numbers really well. He will give you practical, sensible advice.

Jamie Randall's ability to bring together a lot of information and distil it into some pithy advice is really good.

Sparsh Garg is incredibly clever and a brilliant communicator.

Sparsh is very proactive and comes up with ideas. He is very team-focused.