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Mr Owen Curry
Position
Owen specialises in commercial and traditional chancery litigation. He has regularly appeared in trials and interlocutory matters in the High Court and County Court.
He has also been involved in off-shore litigation in both the Caribbean and the Channel Islands and has spent time assisting law firms in London and the Channel Islands. As a result he has gained a broad experience of contentious probate trust and estate disputes and well as document heavy commercial litigation and commercial litigation involving the application of traditional equitable principles in modern contexts.
Career
Called 2009, Lincoln’s Inn.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Education
- BA (Oxon) Classics – 1st Class
- M.St (Oxon) Classics – Distinction.
- CPE, City University – Distinction
- BVC, City Law School – Outstanding
- Postmastership, Merton College, Oxford
- Lord Bowen Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
- Lord Denning Scholarship, Lincoln’s Inn
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
XXIV Old Buildings is a ‘well-known and reputable set with exceptional offering for contentious trust and estates work’. Elspeth Talbot Rice KC is a ‘robust and client-friendly advocate’ – she appeared in the Bermudian Wong v Grand View case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council regarding the powers of trustees, stemming from disagreements within the family of the founders of Formosa Plastics Corporation; before the same forum David Brownbill KC represented the claimants in Perry v Lopag, who seek to challenge the transfer of a Caymanian company into a Liechtenstein trust on the basis that the settlor made a mistake regarding the rights of the beneficiaries under Liechtenstein law, which changed in a way unfavourable to them. Edward Cumming KC represents the children of Monty Python star Terry Jones in a trust and probate dispute with his second wife. Turning to the set’s juniors, Owen Curry successfully represented a man who applied under the Relief From Forfeiture Act 1982 after admitting being convicted of the manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility of his wife. Adam Cloherty KC was appointed silk in 2023.