Withers Worldwide

Overview

Paul advises on trust litigation; offshore and international litigation (especially trusts), Jersey law, commercial litigation and judicial review, wills and trusts, commercial trusts, other fiduciary arrangements.

Highlights

• R (Sutovic) v North London Coroner [2006] EWHC 1095 (Admin)
• Long and difficult judicial review of coroner's inquest where many serious allegations were made against the coroner (our client), all of which were rejected by the Court

Publications and speaking engagements

• The Jersey Law of Property (with SC Nicolle), 1991
• A Guide to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
• The Jersey Law of Trusts (with T Sowden QC), 3rd ed 1994
• A Practitioner's Guide to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (with H Barraclough), 1996
• Trusts: Migration and Change of Proper Law, 1997
• Division D (Public Sector Tenancies), in Hill and Redman's Law of Landlord and Tenant, 18th ed
• Trust and Estate Disputes, 1999
• Jervis on Coroners, 12th ed 2002, Sweet & Maxwell (also 10th ed 1986, 11th ed 1993; 1st supplement 2003, 2nd supplement 2004, 3rd supplement 2006)
• Underhill & Hayton, Law of Trusts and Trustees (with D Hayton and C Mitchell), 17th ed 2006
• Disclosure (with H M Malek QC), 3rd ed 200
•  Butterworths Business Landlord and Tenant Handbook (ed, with K Bradford), 4th ed 2007

Plus many articles in journals and chapters in books, including:

• Choice of Law in Property Transactions in Jersey Law (2005) 9 JLRev 187
• All About Bare Trusts [2005] PCB 266, 339
• Trusts in Belgian Private International Law (2005) 19 TLI 191
• The impact on onshore and offshore trusts of English matrimonial litigation (2006) 10 JLRev 27
• The Comparative Importance of the Rule in Saunders v Vautier (2006) 122 LQR 266
• The Doctrine of Fraud on a Power [2007] PCB 131, 000
• The French fiducie: and now for something completely different? (2007) 21 TLI 17
• La legge sul trust a San Marino e il modello di trust internazionale, in (ed) Manes and Soldati, I trust interni a la legge della Repubblica di San Marino sui trust, 2007, 93-98
• International enforcement issues relating to trusts, in (ed) Harper and ors, International Trust and Divorce Litigation, 2007
• La proprietà: storia e comparazione, Chap XI in (eds) Castronovo and Mazzamutto, Manuale di Diritto Privato Europeo, Vol II, 2007

Memberships

• Law Society of England and Wales
• City of London Solicitors' Company
• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
• International Academy of Estate and Trust Law
• Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
• Solicitors' Association of Higher Court Advocates
• Associazione Il Trust in Italia
• Coroners' Society of England and Wales
• Royal Society of Medicine
• British Institute of International & Comparative Law
• Society of Legal Scholars
• The Selden Society
• The Stair Society

On a personal note

Paul is interested in reading, music, cinema and languages.

He is also visiting professor at King's College London and Coroner for the City of London.