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12 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN
LONDON
WC2A 3SW
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Lynton Tucker
Position
Practice is primarily trusts-based and includes related tax work; advises on and litigates in areas of family, charitable, pension, commercial and employee trusts, this includes the duties of trustees and their breach, conflicts of interest and self-dealing, variation of trusts, and attacks by creditors and others on trusts and trustees; advisory work includes drafting of trust documentation and effect of UK taxation on both UK and overseas trusts; a substantial part of his practice concerns offshore trusts, estates and companies in the Channel Islands, BVI, Cayman Islands, Bahamas and Hong Kong; called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Court in the BVI and Anguilla; acted for over four years in the long-running Alhamrani litigation in Jersey; was an editor of the 17th and 18th editions of Lewin on Trusts and is senior editor of the forthcoming 19th edition; won the award for Chancery Junior of the Year at the Chambers Bar Awards in 2011.
Career
Called 1971. Publications of note: contributor to ‘Lewin on Trusts’.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Lynton Tucker –New Square Chambers ‘Lynton has a vast experience of all matters relating to trusts both contentious and non-contentious and his wisdom is very deep. He is very thoughtful and very practical in his advice.’
New Square Chambers is ‘an excellent set’ for the full range of contentious and non-contentious trust work. Nicholas Le Poidevin KC is ‘always able to explain difficult issues simply and clearly’ and specialises in breach of trust disputes, reorganisation of trusts, and litigation, while Lynton Tucker is experienced in matters related to offshore trusts. Mark Hubbard is working with Manx advocates in the Re Montpelier (Trusts and Corporate) Sevices Limited (in liquidation) case in Douglas concerning the liquidation of a trusts services provider, having been granted a temporary advocates licence, while closer to home Aidan Briggs represented (through a litigation friend) the severely disabled daughter of Cecil Parkinson and his mistress in an Inheritance Act claim against the former home secretary’s estate after maintenance payments stopped after his death.
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Lynton Tucker –New Square Chambers ‘Lynton is a first class litigator, with an intellectual rigour, hands-on approach and team work. He is noted for his highly persuasive advocacy and his ability to master and control very large scale and often cross-jurisdictional litigation.’
New Square Chambers is highly-respected in the offshore arena for its work representing institutional and corporate clients, alongside ultra-high net worth individuals, on a vast range of instructions covering commercial, company and property law. Head of Chambers Nicholas Le Poidevin KC maintains his strong offshore practice centred on contentious trusts, wills and estates. Simon Adamyk is instructed in a high value unfair prejudice claim, a breach of warranty claim and a fraudulent misrepresentation claim relating to a BVI joint venture company seeking to enforce an arbitration award worth nearly $11bn. Senior junior and respected offshore practitioner Lynton Tucker is known for his extensive offshore trusts experience, principally in the Channel Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the BVI.