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Andrew Willetts

0845 308 1551 awilletts@kbgchambers.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Chancery, Probate & tax

Position

Andrew is a chancery practitioner specialising in contentious and non contentious trust and probate work and regularly provides advice to executors, trustees and beneficiaries under will trusts and other settlements.

Andrew undertakes the full range of Probate, Succession and Trust work , in particular:

• contentious and non-contentious probate;
• providing advice to executors, trustees and beneficiaries on estate matters and the execution of trusts generally;
• Will trusts;
• applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975; and
• applications under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958.
• applications under section 50 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 (to remove or substitute executors) and the Court’s inherent jurisdiction to remove trustees under the principles established in Letterstedt v Broers (1884) 9 App Cas 371.

• applications for Beddoe orders.

• applications under section 57 Trustee Act 1925. 

• applications under section 64 Settled Land Act 1925.

Andrew is also a member of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and contributor to Westlaw’s UK Insight on the variation of trusts, the doctrine of renvoi and the power of advancement.

Andrew has also written widely on the subject of trusts including for Westlaw and the New Law Journal. Andrew is a member of the Chancery Bar Association and STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Career

Andrew is also a fully qualified and accredited civil and commercial mediator and is available to mediate a wide range of disputes including personal injury, property disputes and chancery actions

Andrew is a member of the Western Circuit and sits as a Recorder in the County Court (in civil, family, care and crime) on the Midland Circuit.

Andrew successfully completed STEP Advanced Certificate in Trust Disputes with Distinction (January 2017- 2018)

Languages

English

Memberships

• Member of STEP (2013)

• Successfully completed STEP Advanced Certificate in Trust Disputes with Distinction (January 2017- 2018)

Education

• BSc Econ Hons (Politics & Law) UCW Aberystwyth 1996
• Awarded the Calcutt Pryce Prize for Land Law 1996
• Called to the Bar: Inner Temple 1997