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Michael Ashdown
Position
Michael has a broad chancery practice, encompassing all areas of commercial and traditional work. He appears regularly in the High Court and County Court, both as sole counsel and as a junior in a larger team. Michael’s particular interests are in all aspects of litigation and advice relating to trusts law. This encompasses both traditional private client work and pension schemes, together with professional negligence in those fields.
Career
Called 2013, Lincoln’s Inn; Lecturer in Law, Somerville College, Oxford.
Formerly: Fellow and Tutor in law, Somerville College, Oxford, 2010-13; CSET Career Development Fellow in land law and trusts, University of Oxford, 2007-10; Research Assistant, Law Commission, 2005-06.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association; Association of Pension Lawyers; Society of Legal Scholars; ConTrA.
Publications of note: ‘Disorder & delayed discovery’ (2019) 169 (7840) New Law Journal 16; ‘A modern approach to fraud on a power’ (2018) 24 Trusts & Trustees 653 (with Tiffany Scott QC); ‘Professional Advice’ in PS Davies, S Douglas and J Goudkamp (eds), Defences in Equity (Hart Publishing 2018); ‘Publication Review: Current Issues in Succession Law’ (2017) Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 158; ‘Trustee Decision Making: The Rule in Re Hastings-Bass’ (OUP 2015); ‘Laches and limitation’ (2014) Trusts & Trustees 20 (9): 958-965 (with Clare Stanley QC); ‘In defence of the rule in Re Hastings-Bass’ (2010) 16 Trusts & Trustees 826.
Education
Christ’s College, Cambridge: BA (First Class) 2005; MA 2008. Merton College, Oxford: BCL (Distinction) 2007; DPhil 2013.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Private client: trusts and probate
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Michael Ashdown – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Michael can explain the most complex trust issues clearly and cogently. His drafting skills are second-to-none. He is extremely bright, user-friendly and responsive.’
London Bar > Pensions
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Michael Ashdown –Wilberforce Chambers ‘Michael is incredibly bright with an irrepressible enthusiasm for the finer points of the law, which is combined with an engaging advocacy style almost unusual for someone so technical.’
The English Bar Offshore > The English Bar Offshore
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 4Michael Ashdown – Wilberforce Chambers ‘Michael is extremely bright and and very quickly gets to grips with complex matters, including those with an international dimension and issues of foreign law. Consistently impresses with his written and oral advices.’