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Eason Rajah KC
Work Department
Private Client: Trusts & Probate; Private Client: Personal Tax, Court of Protection
Position
Chancery litigation and advisory work in the UK and offshore, including domestic, off shore and cross-border trusts and will disputes, disputes relating to offshore trust and structures in matrimonial proceedings, related tax and professional negligence issues, the drafting, structuring and advising in relations to trusts, succession planning and tax and related areas, court of protection: property and affairs.
Career
Called to the Bar 1989; Silk 2011; Recorder 2016; Chair of the Chancery Bar Association 2018-2020; Deputy High Court Judge 2020. Called to the Malaysian Bar 1991.
He is an Editor of Mellows Taxation of Executors and Trustees, an Editor of the Court of Protection Law Reports and is the Consultant Editor of Ranking Spicer Pegler, Executorship Law, Trusts and Accounts.He was Legal 500’s Private Client: Trusts and Probate Silk of the Year 2018’.
Recent cases include: Hinduja v Hinduja [2020] EWHC 1533 (part of an ongoing dispute relating to the business and affairs of the Hinduja family); Re Z [2019] EWCOP 55 (contested CoP proceedings relating to a well known businessman); Pakistan v Nat West (No.3) [2019] EWHC 2551 (Ch) (acting successfully for His Exalted Highness the 8th Nizam of Hyderabad in a claim to establish that funds held in a bank account in the name of Pakistan since Indian independence were held on trust for the 7th Nizam); Crociani v Crociani [2017] JRC 146, [2018] JCA 136 (successful breach of trust claim for over USD100m); High Commissioner of Pakistan v Nat West Bank (No.2) [2016] EWHC 1465 (Ch) High Commissioner of Pakistan v Nat West Bank (No.1) [2015] EWHC 55 (Ch),; Crociani v Crociani and others [2014] UKPC 40 (the landmark case on jurisdiction clauses in trusts); Scarfe v Matthews [2012] WTLR 1579 (doctrine of election – estate of Bernard Matthews); Re the Valetta Trust [2011] JRC 227(the validity of third party litigation funding arrangements for trust litigation in Jersey)
Languages
Malay.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Bar Pro Bono Unit.
Education
Epsom College; University of Nottingham (1988 LLB Hons).