private client

Maitland's expertise includes cases involving:

• Trust administration issues such as Beddoe applications, Public Trustee v Cooper applications, removal of trustees, Pitt v Holt claims, and rectification and interpretation of settlement documents
• Breaches of duty by trustees, claims against asset managers and beneficiary claims over trust assets
• Pensions and charities
• Civil fraud issues such as asset tracing, dishonest assistance in breach of trust and knowing receipt of trust property

Our members also frequently work in offshore jurisdictions including the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Caribbean, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Hong Kong and Singapore. Maitland has strong links to local firms developed through both direct instructions and secondments of our junior members.

Maitland deals with all aspects of the administration of estates including:

• Non-contentious matters such as the construction of wills, rectification, Benjamin applications, and advising personal representatives during the course of applying for probate and administering the estate
• Claims against estates involving testamentary capacity, validity, proprietary estoppel, constructive and resulting trusts and undue influence
• Applications to remove personal representatives, claims against personal representatives for breach of duty and devastavit, claims for accounts
• Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975