Selborne Chambers contains expertise in a wide array of trust and probate work, with members of the right experience level for every stage of a case's life cycle. Acting for the defendants, Ian Clarke KC led Julia Beer in Alexander Brotherton v Maybrook Properties, a claim for specific performance of an alleged agreement to separate underlying trusts holding shares in Maybrook Properties. Clifford Darton KC appears in Kilner v Hewitson, a High Court case seeking to set aside a will on the grounds of forgery. George Woodhead acted as sole counsel in the now leading case of Islam v Islam, which clarified the law on sham trusts.
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George specialises in property, contested probate and trusts, and commercial litigation in London and throughout England and Wales.
A good deal of George’s practice concerns ‘domestic’ chancery disputes, such as those between families, former couples, business partners, neighbouring landowners and landlords and tenants.
He is appointed to the Attorney General’s B Panel of London junior counsel to the Crown.
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