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Lydia Kember

Associate

Lydia is an Associate in the Firm’s Private Wealth Disputes team.

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About

Lydia acts for a wide range of clients, including private individuals, families, trustees, family businesses and not-for-profit organisations in relation to contentious legal matters in both a UK and international context. She assists clients in relation to complex disputes involving trusts, wills, capacity and inheritance. 

Lydia also has experience in advising both shareholder and company clients in relation to shareholder disputes, particularly in the context of a family business.

Lydia trained at Charles Russell Speechlys and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2022. She is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Acting for the successful claimants in relation to the title to shares in a family business, pursuant to a covenant to make a will: Colicci v Grinberg [2023] EWHC 1177 (Ch)
  • Advising a beneficiary of two English trusts in relation to two removal applications – an application to remove the trustee and an attempt to remove him from the beneficial class.
  • Acting in two appeals from offshore jurisdictions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Our thinking

  • What Issue: Surrogacy and the Longleat family trusts

    Oliver Auld

    Insights

  • The 1975 Act Turns Fifty: Why Reform was Needed and What Changed

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • The Murdochs and the Buffetts – succession planning for billionaires

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Serious failings by Trustee amount to a breach of trust: Charles Russell Speechlys advises the Hon. Mrs Dawson-Damer in appeal of long-running trust dispute

    Ziva Robertson

    News

  • To share or not to share, that is the question. The Supreme Court hands down judgment in ‘big money’ divorce case Standish v Standish and clarifies the position regarding matrimonialisation and the sharing principle

    Miranda Fisher

    Insights

  • The Law Commission: Modernising Wills Law Report - a disputes perspective

    Lydia Kember

    Quick Reads

  • Tamasin Perkins and Lydia Kember write for Charity Finance on the collapse of Kids Company

    Tamasin Perkins

    In The Press

  • Removing A Trustee From a Trust

    Lydia Kember

    Insights

  • Succession planning considerations for the 21st century

    Oliver Little

    Insights

  • Post-death claims in the Roy household - children, cohabitees and candid wives

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Charles Russell Speechlys’ Private Wealth Disputes team act for the successful Claimants in rare case involving a promise to make a will

    Graeme Kleiner

    News

  • Will Forgery: Where Experienced Experts Come in Handy

    Lydia Kember

    Insights

  • How to navigate life after death: wills, wishes, and warring executors

    Lydia Kember

    Insights

  • Kids Company update

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Corporate Sponsorship of Museums and Galleries - Free Money at What Cost?

    Lydia Kember

    Quick Reads

  • Quentin NFT-No ?

    Lydia Kember

    Quick Reads

  • A new bill offers hope of less bureaucracy for charities

    Sarah Rowley

    Quick Reads

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