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Cripps Harries Hall LLP

WALLSIDE HOUSE, 12 MOUNT EPHRAIM ROAD, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, TN1 1EG, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 01892 515121
Fax:
Fax 01892 544878
DX:
3954 TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Web:
www.crippslaw.com
Email:
Tunbridge Wells, London

Simon Leney

Tel:
Work +44 1892 506005
Email:
Cripps Harries Hall LLP

Work Department

Private client.

Position

Partner handling personal wealth and tax planning/management; creation/use of settlements and will trusts; trusteeships and executorships; wills and administration of estates; powers of attorney and attorneyships; inheritance, capital gains, income tax and estate planning; charity law and services; inheritance disputes and claims.

Career

Articled Donne Mileham and Haddock; qualified 1977; branch head Donne Mileham and Haddock 1978-82; salaried partner 1979; equity partner 1982; head of probate and trust department 1982-89; marketing partner 1986-89; head of private client department since 1989; notary public 1989; chairman Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Sussex branch, 1992-94; joined Cripps Harries Hall LLP 1994; head of private client 1996-2005; head of tax and trust services from 2005 onwards; area representative of Solicitors Benevolent Association.

Member

STEP; Securities Institute 1993; Law Society’s Private Client Section Committee 2010.

Education

Sherborne School, Dorset.

Leisure

Rugby; home and garden; vintage, veteran and classic cars.

Practice Areas

Charities and not-for-profit; Contentious trusts and probate; Private client

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