Stewart Stretton-Hill > Irwin Mitchell > Newbury, England > Lawyer Profile
Irwin Mitchell Offices
Oxford House, 12-20 Oxford Street
Newbury
BERKSHIRE
RG14 1JB
England
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Stewart Stretton-Hill
Work Department
Lifestyle & Estate Planning
Position
Senior Associate Solicitor
Career
Stewart is a Senior Associate working from the Newbury and Reading offices, advising on wills, probates, inheritance and capital gains tax, and trust structures. He helps families plan for the future, providing peace of mind with estate planning, asset protection and tax planning.
He has a particular interest in helping individuals cope with loss of mental capacity or plan for a time when they may be unable to take decisions for themselves. This involves preparing and advising on Lasting Powers of Attorney, making applications to the Court of Protection to appoint deputies, or to enable attorneys and deputies undertake tax planning. He also advises attorneys and deputies on their duties and responsibilities to ensure that they comply with their statutory obligations so they do not leave themselves open to claims.
Stewart takes a rounded approach to helping families manage their legal affairs, working with financial advisors, wealth managers and accountants. This ensures he can offer advice that is most suitable and ‘joined-up’ for them.
Prior to specialising in this area of law he worked in Personal Injury dispute resolution, which serves him well in bringing cases before the Court of Protection to assist families to put in place asset management and tax planning strategies for individuals who are no longer able to manage their affairs.
Stewart is a member of the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends initiative and an active senior member of the West Berkshire Dementia Action Alliance helping to make West Berkshire more dementia friendly
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
Sarah Phillips leads the Thames Valley private client offering at Irwin Mitchell and, as the point of contact for all things related to inter-generational wealth, has a robust track record for representing high-net-worth individuals, alongside business and C-suite executives. ‘Brilliant legal mind’ Stewart Stretton-Hill focuses on advising high net-worth individuals on legal, tax and practical issues in diminished mental capacity cases – he is the firm’s national lead for Later Life and chairs the elderly and vulnerable client technical committee. Sarah Paton advises on complex wills, trusts and wealth protection matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment
- Insurance > Personal injury: claimant
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Private client > Family: Hampshire
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Hampshire
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Hampshire
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Hampshire
- Public sector > Public sector
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment