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Tamasin Perkins

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Tamasin advises high-net worth individuals, trustees and fiduciaries on complex international trust disputes including sham, breach of trust claims, mistake and claims involving protectors. Tamasin is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator.

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Tamasin advises high-net worth individuals, trustees and fiduciaries on complex international trust disputes including sham, breach of trust claims, mistake and claims involving protectors. She also advises trustees on administration actions such as applications for directions. She advises on multi-jurisdictional injunctions and claims for the recovery of assets arising out of such disputes. Her practice also includes domestic and international succession disputes including challenges based on capacity, fraud, undue influence or forgery, proprietary estoppel disputes and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Tamasin routinely advises on professional negligence claims arising out of trust and succession disputes and tax advice. She also acts on many contentious matters for charities and in complex contentious Court of Protection matters.

Tamasin is admitted to practise in England and Wales.

Experience

  • Advising a beneficiary of various Channel Island and Caribbean family Trusts in relation to claims against the trustees and the removal of the protector
  • Acting for a disinherited spouse of a well-known businessman in a multi-million pound claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 including claims to business assets
  • Acting for a beneficiary of an offshore Trust in proceedings challenging a trustee’s proposed final distribution and including applications for disclosure of Trust documents
  • Advising a high-profile client on claims to assets including artworks held in a complex global structure and bringing related injunctive proceedings
  • Acting for an international trust company in a contested directions application in the English Courts with parallel proceedings in another jurisdiction

Recognition

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Family law and trusts

A series of videos in which experts from our Family, Private Wealth Disputes and Tax, Trusts and Succession teams discuss the relationship between trusts and family proceedings.

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Our thinking

  • 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 Telegraph quotes Tamasin Perkins on the rise of family inheritance disputes and the increasing use of caveats in probate disputes

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    In The Press

  • Arbitration for family offices

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Bridging Differences: The Role of Mediation in Resolving Cross-Border Trust Disputes

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Tamasin Perkins writes for IFA Magazine on what financial advisers need to know about The Law Commission’s recent report: Modernising Wills Law

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    In The Press

  • London International Disputes Week: Trusts hurt: the fraud lawyer, the trust, and the avenues of attack (and defence)

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    Events

  • The Telegraph quotes Tamasin Perkins on the Law Commission’s recent report: Modernising Wills Law

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    In The Press

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

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    In The Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Tamasin Perkins on the concerns surrounding the proposed amendment to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

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    In The Press

  • Tamasin Perkins writes for the Financial Times’ Your Questions column on succession planning

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    In The Press

  • Tamasin Perkins writes for Wealth Briefing on the assisted dying bill and lessons from financial abuse claims

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    In The Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Tamasin Perkins on the assisted dying bill

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    In The Press

  • Tamasin Perkins writes for Wealth Briefing on lessons learned from Rupert Murdoch’s legal battle with his children

    Tamasin Perkins

    In The Press

  • A three-part video series on risk mitigation for F&B businesses.

    Sarah Higgins

    General Content

  • Tamasin Perkins writes for Wealth Briefing on The Traitors and takeaways for private client litigation

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    In The Press

  • The Law Society Gazette quotes Tamasin Perkins on The Traitors and its likeness to multi-party litigation

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    In The Press

  • The Telegraph quotes Tamasin Perkins on dementia cases and incapacity sparking jump in family legal battles

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    In The Press

  • The Daily Telegraph quotes Tamasin Perkins on common issues arising in succession disputes

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    In The Press

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

    Tamasin Perkins

    Insights

  • Sleepwalking into (disclosure) oblivion – key considerations when litigation’s in the air

    Sara Pridgeon

    Insights

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