Recognised for defending estates and protecting trust structures, Hunters Law LLP routinely acts for trustees, beneficiaries, and sovereign bodies. Practice head David Draisey is skilled in handling contentious trust and probate matters, including estate disputes, trust variations, will challenges, and Court of Protection proceedings. Sunir Watts is knowledgeable in trust variation and estate administration, and Francesca Turner, who joined from Downs Solicitors LLP in January 2026, focuses on Inheritance Act claims and estate fraud recovery. Sophia Smout left the firm.
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- Mary Elliot has a quiet manner but a ruthless intellect - she is an excellent lawyer. Julia Lewis is again excellent and extremely practical, as are Sunir Watts and Vanina Wittenberg. Each of them will interrogate the advice to ensure that all relevant aspects have been covered.
- The contentious team has access to the extremely strong non-contentious team, which means that they can cover all bases when it comes to these sorts of matters.
- Hunters have a well-respected private client team who consistently achieve good outcomes for their clients.
- David Draisey's stock continues to rise each year. His calm and practical approach to often emotionally fraught private client disputes helps both his clients and builds trust with opposing parties.
- Fantastic all-around team. Superb service.
- David Draisey is a first-class practitioner. He is razor-sharp on the law, eminently sensible, and tactically astute.
- Hunters LLP has great non-contentious lawyers who work hand in glove with master litigator David Draisey.
- David Draisey is fantastic, tactical, clever, and always gets great results.
- Attention to detail, easy to work with, effective in setting out strategy.
- I have worked with Richard Kershaw, and I have found him to be very competent, easy to work with, and with sound proposals regarding the strategy to be followed in the case.
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Practice head
David Draisey
Other key lawyers
Richard Kershaw; Sunir Watts; Francesca Turner