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Francis Ng
Position
Francis Ng is a chancery practitioner specialising in private client work.
Career
Cases of note: Cadogan v Cadogan [2020] EWHC 2714 (Ch); re Cadogan [2021] WTLR 411; Clarke v Allen [2019] EWHC 1193 and 1194 (Ch); Yechiel v HMRC [2018] UKFTT 683 (TC); Thornton v Woodhouse [2017] EWHC 769 (Ch).
Academic posts: Francis taught trusts law for over half a decade at UCL and Oxford, including as a lecturer in St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
Other legal work: Francis is a former consultant to the private client department at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP, and a former judicial assistant to Lady Justice Arden (as she then was).
Publications of note: ‘Success fees under the Inheritance Act’ [2020] PCB 172; ‘Saving litigants from themselves: mandatory early neutral evaluations in the English courts [2019] PCB 185; ‘Unintended Consequences’ [2019] TELTJ 17; ‘“Common intention” constructive trusts arising from informal agreements to dispose of land’ [2017] Conv 146 (with Toby Boncey); ‘Property Realised after Completion of an Individual Voluntary Arrangement’ (2016) 29(6) Insolvency Intelligence 92 (with Simon Jones); ‘The rule in Hastings-Bass, Mistake, and Tax Avoidance: Pitt v Holt and Futter v Futter’ [2013] BTR 566; ‘Case Comment: re St Andrew’s (Cheam) Lawn Tennis Club Trust’ [2014] T&T 287 (with Toby Boncey
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (full member)
Attorney General’s C-panel of junior counsel to the Crown.
Education
BCL (distinction), St Peter’s College, Oxford (2012)
BPTC (outstanding), University of the West of England (2011)
MA (distinction), University of Bristol (2010)
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Francis Ng – 5 Stone Buildings ‘Francis has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject. He is insightful, professional and provides robust advice on the strengths and weaknesses of the case. He is good on his feet and can navigate thorny issues effortlessly.’