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Edward Hicks
Position
Chancery and commercial practice, specialising in real property and private client litigation, areas of work including land, boundaries, easements, freehold covenants, landlord and tenant, trusts, wills and probate, family provision, administration of estates, contract and commercial disputes, consumer credit and insolvency.
Career
Called 2004; Middle Inn; Guildford Chambers 2005-09; joined Radcliffe Chambers 2009.
Cases of note include: Blue Manchester Ltd v North West Ground Rents Ltd [2019] EWHC 142 (TCC) ; Re Huntley [2014] WTLR 745; Morshead Mansions v Di Marco [2013] L&TR 27 (Ch D) and [2014] 1 WLR 1799; Re Catling [2014] All ER (D) 52; Re Devillebichot [2013] WTLR 1701; Log Book Loans Ltd & Nine Regions Ltd v Office of Fair Trading (CCA/2009/0010 and CCA/2009/0011); R (on the application of Tallington Lakes Ltd) v Grantham Magistrates Court (Queen’s Bench Division, 24th February 2011); Tallington Lakes Ltd v Grantham Magistrates Court [2011] RA 179. Publications of note: A will writer’s work of fiction TELJ 14th November 2014; The perils of assisting with a will, TELTJ May 2014. Seminars: Undue Influence: Equity and Probate compared 2015; Lessons from Morshead Mansions v Di Marco 2014; Costs, Procedure and Tactics in Probate 2014; General Principles of Damages in Property Litigation 201312014; Civil Litigation Costs Benefit Analysis 2013; Economic Duress 2013; A practical approach to risk management in trusts and estates litigation 2011 STEP/Connect 2 Law; Challenging the Validity of Wills 2011 (Connect 2 Law); Protecting Gifts from Challenge 2010 (Solicitors for the Elderly); Contributor to Atkins Court Forms on Education.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association.
Education
St Bedes School, Surrey; Magdalene College, Cambridge (2002 MA Law, triple 1st class); Oriel College, Oxford (2003 BCL, distinction).
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private wealth and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 3Edward Hicks –Radcliffe Chambers ‘Edward’s thorough approach and attention to detail inspire huge confidence. His knowledge of the law is second to none, and he has an excellent manner with clients.’
Radcliffe Chambers has ‘an extremely strong breadth of counsel, from up and coming juniors to silks contesting trust and estate work’. Thomas Dumont KC and Edward Hicks represented adult children who overturned gifts of £650,000 in their late father’s will, the father having lost testamentary practice during the drafting of a will. Hicks also acted for the widow of the deceased in a case where a solicitor executor sought to have her removed as co-executor on the basis of an alleged conflict of interest, on the grounds that she has a potential Inheritance Act claim (the estate going directly to the children under the will), while Josh Lewison secured summary judgment for a group of cancer charities, defending a challenge by a woman to her late father’s will on the challenge the grounds of fraud, undue influence and lack of capacity.
London Bar > Property litigation
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Edward Hicks – Radcliffe Chambers ‘An incredibly safe pair of hands. Technically excellent, well read on the law, and persuasive on his feet and on paper.’