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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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  • Tamasin Perkins - Chambers HNW 2021
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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

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

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    In The Press

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

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    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

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    Insights

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

    Sara Pridgeon

    Insights

  • The Daily Express interviews Tamasin Perkins on season four of Succession

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    In The Press

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

    Lydia Kember

    Insights

  • When emotions run high: representing a warring family in a commercial deal

    Tamasin Perkins

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  • Tips on managing disputes after the Privy Council refuses to hear appeal in Perry offshore trust litigation

    Sarah Moore

    Insights

  • Kids Company update

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  • Trusts in Family law proceedings

    Sarah Higgins

    Insights

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