Harper Macleod LLP‘s team has strong experience in contentious work, handling disputes surrounding undue influence, challengeable testamentary writings, breaches of trustee and beneficiary duties, as well as those involving incapacity, fraud and debt. Andrew Upton leads the team, key members of which include contentious probate specialist John McHugh and Andrew MacKenzie whose remit encompasses trustee and partnership disputes. Jennifer Grosvenor’s clients include private individuals and public sector bodies, and Angus Brown‘s experience includes matters of incapacity.
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Key clients
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Office of the Public Guardian
Work highlights
Assisting an individual according to Scots law in relation to the administration of her late husband’s $4.5m estate in California, USA, and the enforceability of a Scottish will.
Advising an individual in defence of proceedings raised against her and two of her brothers by her other brother to declare a document to be the will of their late father, and a determination of what, if any, effect the document has on the administration of the estate.
Advising two executors of their late father’s estate in their pursuit of damages against their brother for his role in procuring a transfer of their father’s home into his name, to the detriment of the beneficiaries under the will.
Practice head
Andrew Upton
Other key lawyers
John McHugh; Andrew MacKenzie; Jennifer Grosvenor; Angus Brown