If you are looking for experienced solicitors to represent you with a contested Will, then contact our team of experts for a free case assessment and details of no win, no fee funding.
What should you look for when choosing a solicitor to contest a Will?
The most important consideration when choosing a solicitor to contest a Will is whether they are a genuine specialist in the field of contentious probate law.
Contesting a Will involves complex legal principles. It is therefore crucial that the solicitor dealing with the case is an expert in this area.
We have a large team of solicitors and lawyers who deal exclusively with contentious probate law, devoting 100% of their time to it. This means that they are not a ‘jack of all trades’, undertaking contested Will cases alongside other areas of legal practice, but are true specialists with a wide range of experience.
It pays to have an experienced specialist lawyer on your side; someone who has encountered the sort of issues you are facing many times before; someone who is able to get straight to the heart of the matter and will know what options you have.
Our team of specialist solicitors and lawyers
- Naomi Ireson leads the team. Her successes include the Court of Appeal case of Ely —v— Robson and the case of Williams —v— Praine.
- Chris Holten is a solicitor and partner specialising in Inheritance Act claims.
- Hayley Bundey is also a partner and solicitor. She is an ACTAPS member who specialises in beneficial interest claims involving proprietary estoppel and represented the claimant in Smith —v— Fraser.
- David Lees, a former police detective, is a solicitor who specialises in contested Will claims.
- Sarah Coombs is a solicitor with extensive litigation and court-based experience who deals with invalid Wills.
- Anya Hoyland, who trained with us before becoming a solicitor, specialises in cases involving trusts and executor conflicts.
Free case assessments and No Win – No Fee funding
Another key factor when choosing a solicitor to contest a Will is whether they offer to assess your case at the outset without making a charge and whether, if the prospects of success are good, they are willing to work on a No Win – No Fee basis.
Because we are experienced specialists we trust our judgment and are therefore willing to offer No Win – No Fee funding on cases where we think we are likely to succeed. And we don’t make any charge for considering whether a case is suitable for this method of funding.
We also operate a free case assessment service which you can access by calling us on freephone 0333 888 0409 or sending an email to us at [email protected]