Bio
Paul is a Disputes Partner.
With more than 40 years of experience in acting in a wide range of types of litigation including professional negligence claims, Paul focuses entirely on contentious wills, trusts and probate cases.
He has particular expertise in will construction and rectification cases, alongside related professional negligence claims.
Paul is a long-standing member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) .
He has been an ADR Group-accredited mediator since 2001, and is an accredited online mediator as well as being registered as a mediator with the Civil Mediation Council.
He is on the ADR Group panel of mediators, as well as being registered as a senior mediator on the Probate, Estates and Trust specialist panel of The Barrister Group.
He is also a Court of Protection-appointed deputy on several catastrophic injury cases.
Examples of Paul’s work include:
- Making a successful claim for a spouse in a contested Inheritance Act claim involving multiple beneficiaries one of whom was resident outside of the jurisdiction and lacked mental capacity.
- Investigating the validity of a will as well as a lifetime transfer of a property by an elderly, infirm and vulnerable lady to her next-door neighbour in a case which turned into a claim for a declaration as to the ownership of the property.
- Defending a claim brought by the client’s brother against him, his wife and three companies in relation to the estates of both of their parents, including making a counterclaim for the removal of the brother as the executor of his mother’s estate and his replacement by independent professional administrators.