Oliver Ingham

Practice Areas

https://www.3pb.co.uk/barristers/oliver-ingham/

Oliver Ingham is an experienced trial advocate in both the Chancery and Family Division of the High Court, and regularly appears in both divisions representing parties to Claims brought under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Oliver is an experienced Trial advocate in respect of other types of Probate Disputes litigated in the Chancery Division.

Recent highlights include acting in the widely reported/significant appeal Hirachand [2022] 1 WLR 1162, and tangentially similar case/appeal in Jassall v Shah [2021] EWHC 3552 (Ch) which significantly changed the law regarding the treatment of costs during as opposed to after the event. In Baxter v Todd [2019] EWHC 1959 the Court noted that “[His] performance was first class…really first class” and that “[He] argued [his] case with very considerable skill”

Oliver predominantly practices in London, as well as the Midlands insofar as his Probate/Islamic Finance practice is concerned, and has appeared in the Business and Property Courts in Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester.

Oliver undertook a course in Shari'a Law at the University of Edinburgh, and is increasingly instructed on matters concerning Islamic finance (particularly as it pertains to Inheritance), and can represent claimants and defendants at the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal and at Court on a wide variety of matters related to Shari'a Law.

Oliver can advise on non-contentious probate matters, including in relation to estate planning.

Career

Called in 2015.

Professional Memberships

STEP (Affiliate)

Member of the Chancery Bar Association

Member of the Association of Costs Lawyers