Date: 30 April 2026

Starts: 1:30 pm

Ends: 5:00 pm

Venue: etc.venues Manchester

Location: 11 Portland St, Manchester M1 3HU

Cost: £30 + VAT

CPD Points: 2.5 hours

Who Should Attend?

St John’s Chambers and Clarke Willmott are delighted to invite you to their contentious probate seminar on Thursday, 30th April.

The seminar 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:

  • Dodgy or inept executors and what to do about them – Annie Sampson
  • Testamentary capacity in light of Maile v. Maile [2025] EWHC 2492 (Ch) and Scott v. Scott [2025] EWHC 2796 (Ch) – Daniel Soar
  • When non-contentious becomes contentious: caveats and put up or shut up applications – Nicole Hilton
  • The Law Commission report on Wills – John Dickinson
  • Larke v. Nugus requests: confidentiality, privilege and pre-action disclosure applications – Alex Troup KC

People

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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...

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John Dickinson

John Dickinson

  • Call: 1995

John is a barrister specialising in contentious probate, Court of Protection, all areas of real estate work including conveyancing disputes, boundaries and easements, landlord & tenant, partnership, banking, pensions, insolvency, company law and shareholder disputes. John’s commercial practice...

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Annie Sampson

Annie Sampson

  • Call: 2015

Annie is a specialist chancery barrister and a trained mediator. Annie’s practice focuses predominantly on wills and trusts and property disputes. Accordingly, Annie has considerable experience of a broad range work in both areas including, for example, trusts...

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Daniel Soar

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...

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Georgina Thompson

  • Call: 2017

Georgina is an experienced junior barrister specialising in commercial law and wills and trusts disputes. She has a developed a practice focused on resolving complex legal disputes by providing clear, practical, and sensitive advice to a wide range...

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Nicole Hilton

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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