Selborne Chambers

Selborne Chambers has ‘a wide range of top quality barristers across most dispute areas’. Ian Clarke KC recently acted for the defendant in Henchley v Thompson, a long-running claim against trustees concerning a trust which was allegedly mismanaged from the 1970s onwards. George Woodhead represented the defendants before the High Court in Islam v Islam and Islam, a matter involving allegations of undue influence and forgery over the trust of six properties and is known for his ’sharp mind allied to a robust and well-judged courtroom style’. Lydia Pemberton is representing a defendant in a case in which the claimant alleges that the will of his late mother is invalid due to forgery involving a struck-off solicitor who was imprisoned for contempt of court in connected proceedings.