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Miranda Allardice
Position
Experienced Chancery and Family Finance Barrister and Mediator. Miranda offers a specialist mediator service dealing with the following areas in which she has extensive expertise:
Inheritance Act and probate claims; administration of estates and trust claims; TOLATA, cohabitee, and proprietary estoppel claims; vulnerable elderly and Court of Protection matters; complex family finance matters.
Miranda uses her knowledge garnered as a senior barrister dealing with the above areas of law to facilitate the mediation process. She is adept at conflict resolution in these technical and highly emotionally charged areas of law. She is able to offer mediation; ENE and private FDRs to secure a cost effective outcome for the parties. She has conducted on-line mediations in the Covid-19 crisis.
Notable reported cases as an advocate:
Costa v Germain [2019] EWHC 3324 Probate dispute. Musa v Holliday [2012] EWCA Civ 1268 Inheritance Act claim. H v Mitson [2010] WTLR 193 Inheritance Act claim.
Career
Called to the Bar in 1982. Qualified as a mediator with ADR in 2005, and built up a successful mediation practice.
Publications: Key contributor to Lexis Nexis Inheritance Act Claims and Law Society Inheritance Act Claims.
Memberships: Chancery Bar Association; Family Bar Association; ACTAPS and Civil Mediation Council
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association, ACTAPS.
Education
1981 Oxford BA Jurisprudence 1995 Kings MA
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4London > Dispute resolution > Mediators
(Mediators)Ranked: Tier 4Miranda Allardice – 5 Stone Buildings
Qualified as a mediator in 2005, Miranda Allardice at 5 Stone Buildings is ‘clear, calm and very straightforward. She perceives early on how a claim is likely to settle and works hard to achieve it’. Allardice routinely mediates complex succession disputes, her practice covering Inheritance Act Claims, trusts and estates, proprietary estoppel, Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 matters, and associated professional negligence claims.
Miranda Allardice – 5 Stone Buildings
Qualified as a mediator in 2005, Miranda Allardice at 5 Stone Buildings is ‘clear, calm and very straightforward. She perceives early on how a claim is likely to settle and works hard to achieve it’. Allardice routinely mediates complex succession disputes, her practice covering Inheritance Act Claims, trusts and estates, proprietary estoppel, Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 matters, and associated professional negligence claims.