Ten Old Square

Private Client: trusts and probate, Private Client: Personal Tax, Charities

Simon Taube KC is a leading Silk whose practice covers the full spectrum of traditional Chancery work, both litigation and advisory work.

He is instructed in cases in England and in common law jurisdictions abroad. His special expertise includes UK and foreign trusts and estates, charities, capital tax planning and trust taxation, and fiduciary duties. He also has wide experience in property, securities, partnership, professional negligence and family provision matters.

Qualified 1980, Middle Temple and Lincoln’s Inn; KC 2000.

Important cases include:

Re X Trusts (2023) Bermuda Court of Appeal Stewart & Others v Cromwell Trust Company Ltd (2023) Bahamas Court of Appeal Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd v Halabi; ITG Ltd v Fort Trustees Ltd [2022] UKPC 36 Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council [2021] UKSC 13 Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2020] EWCA (Civ) 352 Lehtimaki & Others v Cooper; Re Children’s Investment Fund Foundation [2020] UKSC 33

Chancery Bar Association; ACTAPS; International Academy of Trust & Estate Law; STEP.

Westminster School; Merton College, Oxford (1978 Modern History 1st); Diploma in Law.

Singing, tennis.