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Chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC

LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3SU
Tel:
Work 020 7405 0758
Fax:
Fax 020 7831 8237
DX:
306 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
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Susannah Meadway

Tel:
Work +44 20 7405 0758
Email:
Ten Old Square (Chambers of Leolin Price CBE QC)

Position

Barrister specialising in advisory, drafting and litigation work in the Chancery fields of trusts and associated taxation, wills, probate and the administration of estates, family provision, court of protection matters, charities; counsel in Re Segelman – concerned with trust, will and charity issues; Healey v Brown – concerned with mutual wills; Re Bartlam – concerned with rectification of a settlement.

Career

Qualified 1988; Middle Temple; co-editor ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England – Wills’; ‘Halsbury’s Laws of England – Executors & Administrators’; ‘Williams on Wills’ (9th edition); Mellows ‘Taxation for Executors and Trustees’; editor of Atkin’s ‘Probate and Family Provision’; contributor Foster’s ‘Inheritance Tax’; co-author of Tolley’s ‘Practitioner’s Guide to Contentious Trusts and Estates’.

Member

STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners); Chancery Bar Association.

Education

St Catherine’s College, Oxford (1986 BA Hons PPE 1st Class; 1991 MA); City University (1987 Dip Law Distinction).

Practice Areas

Chancery (general); Private client - probate, wills and family provision; Private client - trusts and estates

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