
Mathew Roper
Chancery barrister specialising in contentious and non-contentious trusts and estates, related professional negligence and the property and affairs jurisdiction of the Court of Protection. His cases include: Cotton v Earl of Cardigan (blessing application); Fielden v Christie-Miller (rectification of a deed of appointment and proprietary estoppel); RNLI v Headley [2016] 1948 (Ch) (claim for an account and disclosure of trust documents); Bullard v Bullard [2017] EWHC 3 (Ch) (rectification of a settlement); ADS v DSM [2017] EWCOP 8 (statutory will application); and Re AR [2018] EWCOP 8 (authority and remuneration of deputies); Almond v Goff (will construction) Brown v New Quadrant Trust Corporation Ltd [2021] EWHC 1731 (Ch) (injunction to restrain and a counter application for directions blessing a proposed sale of trust assets).