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Weightmans LLP Offices

Weightmans LLP
No 1 Spinningfields
Hardman Square
MANCHESTER
M3 3EB
England
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David McGuire

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David is a member of the firm’s litigation department and has specialist expertise in disputed wills, trusts and estates, including will validity claims and challenges, claims involving the administration of estates, proprietary estoppel, Inheritance Act claims, construction and rectification claims and disputes involving trustees, executors and beneficiaries.

David was named Young Practitioner of the Year at the industry leading British Wills and Probate Awards 2022 for delivering “exceptional levels of client care”, “demonstrating high levels of skill and technical ability”, showing “a flair for innovation and championing best practice” and finding “solutions in challenging situations”. He is recommended as a ‘Rising Star’ in the legal 500 for contentious trusts and probate and is ranked alongside Weightmans’ North West contentious probate team. He was recognised as a ‘Rising Star’ of the legal sector by the North West Business Insider and is part of the winning team at the Manchester Legal Awards 2022 for Litigation Team of the Year.

He is a member of the contentious trusts association (ConTrA), the Northern Contentious Probate Group and the STEP Contentious Probate Special Interest Group.

David has extensive court and ADR experience, particularly mediation, and is regularly instructed by a variety of clients including high net worth individuals, executors, beneficiaries and trustees.

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North West > Private client > Contentious trusts and probate

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David McGuire – Weightmans

The ‘very efficient and professional’ team at Weightmans LLP works in synergy with the non-contentious private wealth and family departments to provide a  holistic service to clients. As such, the firm is geared to act for clients with considerable foreign, business and charitable assets. The contentious department, led by national head Matthew Morton, has seen an uptick in work such as propriety estoppel and professional negligence claims, as well as being routinely involved in disagreements between executors and trustees. A reputed practitioner in the dispute resolution sphere, Robert Jones continues to build an impressive portfolio of high value Inheritance Act claims and will challenges on the grounds of capacity and fraud, while ‘personable and effective’ David McGuire has been highly active in department matters, including complex trust work and highly contested Court of Protection cases.

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