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Lemuel Lucan-Wilson and Caspar Bartscherer join Wilberforce Chambers as tenants

Wilberforce Chambers is pleased to announce that Lemuel Lucan-Wilson and Caspar Bartscherer have joined as tenants following the successful completion of their pupillage in Chambers. Their practices will cover all areas of Chambers’ core specialisms, including commercial dispute resolution, insolvency, pensions,... Read more

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Recent Cases

TN Ramnauth and Company Ltd v Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd

High Court of Trinidad and Tobago

Monday 14 September 2020

News

TN Ramnauth and Company Ltd v Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd

In August 2020, the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago handed down a long-anticipated judgment in TN Ramnauth and Company Ltd v Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd  exploring the tort of an unlawful means conspiracy in the context... Read more

Monday 14 September 2020

Articles

In a pensions context, are death benefit trusts for the benefit of minors exempted from TRS registration under Schedule 3A of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020?

Friday 11 September 2020

News

Remote Witnessing of Wills: the New Order

To download and read this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Emily Campbell   Background Developments in technology have naturally led lawyers in recent times to question the traditional methods for the execution of documents. The Law Commission... Read more

Wednesday 9 September 2020

Articles

Remote Witnessing of Wills: the New Order

Wednesday 9 September 2020

News

Wilberforce co-edits and contributes to Kerr & Hunter on Receivership & Administration (21st Edition)

Members of Wilberforce Chambers have co-edited, and contributed to, the latest edition of Sweet & Maxwell’s leading insolvency text, Kerr & Hunter on Receivership and Administration. Tom Robinson was one of the editors of the work, and contributors include Marcia... Read more

Thursday 3 September 2020

Webchats

Time for a wealth tax?

Emily Campbell and Simon Atkinson discussing some of the issues relating to wealth taxes and how one might be applied in the United Kingdom.

Tuesday 18 August 2020

News

Four Wilberforce members feature on the Lawdragon 500 leading global restructuring and insolvency lawyers list

We are delighted to announce that four members of Wilberforce Chambers feature in Lawdragon’s 2020 list of the 500 leading global restructuring and insolvency lawyers. Thomas Lowe QC, Lexa Hilliard QC, Marcia Shekerdemian QC and Max Mallin QC have been... Read more

Monday 10 August 2020

News

Wilberforce shortlisted for Set of the Year at the High Net Worth Awards 2020

We are delighted to announce that Wilberforce Chambers has been shortlisted at the High Net Worth Awards 2020 for Set of the Year. Chambers and Partners’ criteria for this nomination reads as follows; “ To be ranked by Chambers means that you... Read more

Thursday 6 August 2020

Recent Cases

Raiffeisen International Bank AG v Scully Royalty Ltd – FSD 162 of 2019 (RPJ)

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands

Tuesday 4 August 2020

News

Freezing orders in the Cayman Islands pursuant to the Fraudulent Dispositions Law and a tortious conspiracy: Raiffeisen International Bank AG v Scully Royalty Ltd

On 7 July 2020 Parker J, sitting in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, handed down his written reasons for orders that he had made earlier this year in favour of Raiffeisen International Bank AG (‘RBI’), which amongst other... Read more

Tuesday 4 August 2020