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Piers Feltham
Position
Piers Feltham has a general Chancery practice specialising in particular in property, private client, probate and trusts, capital taxes, landlord and tenant, mortgages and securities, pensions, company and commercial, insolvency, partnership, charities, court of protection, family provision, professional negligence and cohabitation.
Career
Called 1985; Gray’s Inn. Winner of the George Long Prize for Jurisprudence at Cambridge University and Uthwatt scholar of Gray’s Inn. As an advocate he has been highly commended by a survey of litigation solicitors in The Lawyer magazine and he appears regularly in all courts up to the level of the Privy Council. Publications: ‘Spencer Bower on Reliance-Based Estoppel’ 5th ed (2016). Sample cases: Lake v Lake [1989] STC 865 (inheritance tax; deeds of variation); Jawara v Gambia Airways [1992] EGCS 54 Privy Council (land; agency); Pereira v Beanlands [1996] 3 AER 528 (proprietary estoppel; procedural default); Cork v Cork [1997] 1 EGLR 5 (landlord and tenant; joint ownership); Gardener v Lewis [1998] 1 WLR 1535 Privy Council (conveyancing); Lloyd’s Bank v Hawkins [1998] 3 EGLR 109 (mortgage; banking); Re W [2000] Ch 372 (Court of Protection); Moore’s (Wallisdown) Ltd v Pensions Ombudsman [2002] 1 WLR 1649 (pensions); Colonial Fire & General Ins Co ltd v Harry [2006] UKPC 53 (Privy Council; insurance); Connell v Connell [2008] UKPC 44 (Privy Council: trusts); Re East Grinstead Working Men’s Club [2011] WTLR 975 (charity); Re Huntley [2014] EWHC 547 (Ch) (construction/rectification of will); Re Savile [2014] EWCA Civ 1632 (administration of estates; insolvency) Re LM [2015] EWCOP 91 (Court of Protection); Blades v Isaac [2016] WTLR 589 (trustees’ costs).
Memberships
Charity Law Association; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists; Chancery Bar Association; STEP.
Education
Winchester College; Trinity College, Cambridge (BA (Hons)).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Charities
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Piers Feltham –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Piers has the ability to navigate complex matters with ease, and provides clear and concise advice.’
At Radcliffe Chambers, recent instructions for the team include Robert Pearce KC acting for the trustee of the National Fund before the Court of Appeal in Zedra Fiduciary Services (UK) Ltd v Attorney General, concerning the application of the cy-près doctrine to funds held on a trust established in 1928 with a £500,000 donation, but used as part payment when its goal became impossible. Among the junior end of chambers, Piers Feltham has ‘vast and valuable experience in his field‘, and Matthew Mills is ‘very thorough, logical and practical‘.
London Bar > Private wealth and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Piers Feltham –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Piers is extremely responsive, and his expertise in this area of law is exceptional.’
The English Bar Offshore > Trusts and private wealth
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Piers Feltham – Radcliffe Chambers ‘Piers is a go-to barrister, given the quality of his advice and advocacy. He is commercial, great to work with, user-friendly and practical, and his advice is intelligible.’
Radcliffe Chambers frequently handles high-value cases involving disputed trusts with offshore elements in Bermuda, the BVI, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, and Gibraltar. The set is home to Thomas Dumont KC, who can claim four decades of expertise in Chancery-related work, and Robert Pearce KC and Piers Feltham, both of whom are involved in the Wang litigation, which concerns questions over the scope of a trustees’ powers, as well as the validity of non-charitable purpose trusts in Bermuda. Marcus Flavin is another key junior at the set with expertise in trusts, the administration of estates, probate, and inheritance work. Flavin is acting for the trustees in the case of P Trust, C v Fenlight Trustees & others, which concerns a large Jersey law trust, a removal claim, and breach of trust allegations. Josh Lewison‘s practice predominantly focuses on the Channel Islands, and he is also active in the BVI.