Contentious probate update 2025
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Date: 19 November 2025
Starts: 1:30 pm
Ends: 4:50 pm
Venue: Midland Bridge House, Midland Bridge Rd, Bath BA2 3FP
Location: Bath
Cost: £40 + VAT
CPD Points: 3
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Who Should Attend?
St John’s Chambers and RWK Goodman are delighted to invite you to their annual contentious probate update seminar held in association with Stone King.
The seminar aims to bring practitioners up to speed with all the latest developments in the world of contentious probate. It is principally targeted at solicitors who are (or would like to be) involved in contentious probate work, but it would also be of interest to non-contentious lawyers, Will writing firms and professional executors.
Topics include:
- Scott judgment, Alex Troup KC, Head of Wills & Trusts & Daniel Soar, Barristers St John’s Chambers
- Duxbury tables and valuations again for 1975 Act claims, Oliver Wooding, Barrister, St John’s Chambers
- Roger v Wills, Nicole Hilton, Barrister, St John’s Chambers
- Law Commission report, Amanda Noyce, Partner, RWK Goodman and Luke Watson, Partner, Stone King
This confernece will be chaired by Christopher Jones, Head of Chancery and Commercial, St John’s Chambers
There will be an opportunity at the end of the seminar for questions and answers as well as a chance to catch up with the speakers for drinks and nibbles.
People

Alex Troup KC
- Call: 1998
- Silk: 2023
Alex is Head of our Wills & Trusts team and is recognised for his impressive chancery practice. He is the only silk ranked in private wealth outside of London in the High Net Worth Guide 2025. Alex specialises...

Christopher Jones
- Call: 2004
Christopher is a chancery and commercial specialist with particular emphasis on trust litigation and advice, contentious and non-contentious probate applications, real property litigation (particularly in relation to easements, restrictive covenants and contracts for the sale of land) and...

Oliver Wooding
- Call: 2009
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...

Daniel Soar
- Call: 2016
Daniel has an established chancery practice – covering the traditional areas of probate, property and trusts – appearing regularly in the High Court, County Court and Property Tribunals. As part of his probate practice, Daniel frequently advises on...

Nicole Hilton
- Call: 2021
Nicole is a barrister and trained mediator with a broad practice encompassing many areas of commercial and chancery law. Nicole accepts instructions in commercial, construction, professional negligence, landlord and tenant, commercial and residential property, other property and real...
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