Chancery: Traditional
London (Bar)
10 years ranked
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Thomas Fletcher specialises in trusts and estates work and related private client work, which embraces contentious and non-contentious matters such as claims for breach of trust, contentious probate, variation of trusts and trustee directions applications. Much of his work is offshore and he has extensive experience in the Channel Islands, Bermuda, Hong Kong and other offshore jurisdictions in trusts matters. Recent cases include ITG Ltd v Fort Trustees Ltd sub nom. Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd v Halabi (insolvent trusts); Viegas v Cutrale (succession; conflict of laws); JTC Employer Solutions v Garnett (rescission)
MA (Cantab), LLM. Called to the Bar 2009 (Inner Temple).
Chancery Bar Association, COMBAR.
Editor of Lewin on Trusts, 20th Edn (plus 1st Supplement); Editor of Theobald on Wills, 20th Edn; Editor of Trusts and Trustees.
Born 1983. Educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Provided by Chambers
Thomas Fletcher is noted for his handling of a wide variety of traditional chancery matters, and has a particular depth of expertise in offshore and cross-border trusts matters.
Provided by Chambers
Thomas Fletcher is an incredibly bright lawyer, very technically sharp and very strategically astute. He's a real asset. He's technically extraordinary and strategically superbly astute.
Thomas is a really good senior junior. He has a very strategic outlook and is really knowledgeable on the case law side of things, always looking to see how the law has developed as part of a litigation strategy. A very good draftsman for pleadings or letters, timely at producing them to reflect what the instructing solicitor is looking to achieve, and he works well as part of a counsel team.
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