Oliver has a specialist practice that focuses on wills and trusts, and real estate matters, and the overlap between them. He is regularly instructed as an advocate, advisor, and mediator in a wide range of disputes.
Recent cases include:
- Disputes over the validity of wills
- Interpreting wills and trust documents
- Removing executors
- Claims under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- Authorisation of gifts and other applications in the Court of Protection
- Proprietary estoppel and co-habitee claims
- Adverse possession
- Landlord and tenant
- Rights of way
- Boundaries disputes.
He is a trained mediator and accepts direct access instructions.
Professional memberships:
- ACTAPS (Associate Member)
- STEP (Affiliate Member)
- Chancery Bar Association
- Agricultural Law Association
- Court of Protection Bar Association
- Property Bar Association
Qualifications & awards:
- BA (Hons) Modern History (Oxon.)
- M.St Modern History (History of the United States of America) (Oxon.)
- GDL (City)
- Exhibitioner of Lincoln College, Oxford (2003-2005)
- Scholarship from the Rhodes Trust (2003)
- Queen Mother Scholar
- Harmsworth Entrance Exhibitioner of Middle Temple (2007-2009)