Western Circuit
Guildhall Chambers remains ‘a fantastic set of chambers’ for private wealth and probate work. Michael Selway’s varied practice covers trusts disputes and will validity challenges, among other areas. He recently appeared in the landmark Court of Appeal case Winter v Winter, concerning a proprietary estoppel claim brought by two sons against their late father’s estate asserting that they had relied on to their detriment a promise of a one-third share in the Somerset strawberry farm that they had worked on for much of their lives. Oliver Mitchell has broad experience spanning will validity challenges, Inheritance Act claims, and disputes between estates and third parties.
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Work Department
Property and estates; commercial.
Position
Michael practises in Property & Estates and Commercial law, appearing in the High Court, County Court and other tribunals, acting in mediations and doing advisory and drafting work in a wide range of cases in these areas, and has done so since 2008.
He more recently expanded his practice to include the related field of Property and Affairs work in the Court of Protection.
Career
Called 2007; Middle Temple; Guildhall Chambers 2008 to date (pupillage 2007-08).
Memberships
- Middle Temple
- Chancery Bar Association
Michael has expertise in Real Property; Landlord and Tenant; Inheritance, Wills, Probate and Estates; Trusts, and also has experience in other areas, including common land and rights of common, manorial rights, public rights of way and property/estates-related aspects of banking and insolvency.
Michael appears in hearings (and has acted in a number of reported or cited cases) in courts and tribunals across South West England and South Wales, as well as in London and further afield.
In the commercial field, Michael undertakes both court work and advisory and drafting work in cases involving general contractual disputes and a wide range of contractual issues. Michael's court work in this field includes multi-track and fast track trials, as well as interim and other hearings, in local courts and those further afield.Education
Somervale School, Midsomer Norton; University of Oxford (2006 BA Jurisprudence 1st); University of the West of England (2007 Bar Vocational Course – outstanding).
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