Annie specialises in wills and trusts work and has considerable experience across the breadth of this area, including both contentious probate claims and applications under the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987; the removal of personal representatives; claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, including acting for charities in this context; will construction and rectification; issues of domicile and conflict of laws in an estate administration context; and trusts of land and proprietary estoppel claims.

Annie especially enjoys seeking to achieve practical solutions where there are complicating factors, such as one or more of the parties lacking capacity, there being missing beneficiaries or the issues giving rise to a novel question of law and she has extensive experience of achieving resolutions both through court proceedings and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation.

Annie is also a qualified mediator and can be instructed to mediate wills and trusts disputes.

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  • Qualifications:

    • Accredited Civil & Commercial Mediator (ADR Group)
    • BPTC (University of the West of England)
    • GDL (Oxford Brookes University)
    • BA English Language and Literature (University of Oxford)
    • Irene Parker Law Scholarship – Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
    • Exhibition Award and Duke of Edinburgh Entrance Award –  Inner Temple

  • Professional memberships:

    • Chancery Bar Association
    • Contentious Trusts Association
    • Property Bar Association
    • CoPPA

  • Annie Sampson is regulated by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) and holds a current practising certificate. If you are not satisfied with the service provided, please read here.