23 April 2019 - Article
Natasha Stourton
Senior associate | London
Natasha is a senior associate in our trust and succession disputes team.
She advises on a wide range of trust and succession disputes both onshore and offshore, including trustee/beneficiary disputes, contested probate and 1975 Act claims, and professional negligence in the context of estate planning and trust administration.
She also advises on Court of Protection matters, including statutory wills, lifetime gifts, contested registrations and Powers of Attorney.
Natasha is recommended as ‘One To Watch’ by Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2019 and an ‘Associate to Watch’ by Chambers HNW 2019. She is also recommended as a ‘Rising Star’ by Legal 500 2020.
She is described as ‘an outstanding lawyer’, ‘unflappable and has good technical knowledge’.
‘She is approachable, she makes time for clients and she has a really sensible head on her shoulders’.
Natasha has contributed to the past two editions of The Law Society’s Probate Practitioner’s Handbook and the most recent edition of Jordan’s International Trust and Divorce Litigation.
Track record
Admissions
Publications
Memberships
Talks
Assisted a daughter and grand-daughter in defending accusations of wrongdoing in an application to revoke a Lasting Power of Attorney in their favour, and securing the appointment of a chosen family member alongside the Panel Deputy.
Assisted a widow in Goodman v Goodman, reported at [2013] 3 WLR 1551, in successfully removing the executors of her late husband’s estate in favour of her chosen professional. Click here to view article.
Assisted two siblings in Burgess v Hawes, reported at [2012] WTLR 423, to successfully overturn a purported will of their late mother’s and secure recovery of lifetime transfers made to their sister and her immediate family. Click here view our briefing or visit the Daily Telegraph article. And again assisting them to successfully defend an appeal to the Court of Appeal, reported at [2013] EWCA Civ 94. Click here to view our briefing.
England and Wales, 2009
‘Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975’, the Law Society’s Probate Practitioners Handbook (7th Edition)
Probate Disputes and Remedies (3rd Edition), Jordan’s, contributor
Strength of Will, Law Society’s PS Magazine (Issue 105 May 2013), co-author
Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
Charity Law Association
Probate Update, LexisNexis webinar - April 2016
Me in a minute
I am acutely aware of the emotional strain of litigation.. that's not to say I can't fight if I need to
Education
Languages
- English
Dates
Joined
2007
