Cripps Harries Hall

Philip Youdan is an expert in handling trust, estate and will disputes, including claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975. Philip also specialises in regulatory and transport law, advising individuals and business on health and safety and environmental matters as well as issues connected with operator licensing.

Expertise

• Beneficiary disputes
• Chancery litigation
• Health and safety
• Inheritance disputes
• Licensing
• Negligence claims
• Regulatory
• Transport
• Trust disputes

Career

• Associate, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2008
• Solicitor, Cripps Harries Hall LLP, 2005
• Solicitor, Adams & Remers, 2001
• Trainee Solicitor, Gaby Hardwicke, 1999

• Acting for a beneficiary under a substantial family trust containing assets valued by that trust of £20 million. The core issue concerned the mismanagement of the trust by the trustees.
• Challenging the validity of a Will with an estate valued in excess of £1 million. The case concerned allegations of forgery and the use of expert handwriting evidence.
• Acting for relatives of a deceased in defending an Inheritance Act claim against the estate. The deceased died intestate and the claim was brought against the estate by a friend of the deceased who claimed to have been living with the deceased as husband and wife in the two years immediately prior to her death.
• Successfully bringing a claim challenging the validity of a Will on the ground of fraudulent calumny, where the testator is given incorrect information which causes him to alter the terms of his Will.
• Successfully advising on the removal of executors for delay in the administration of the estate and for breach of duty.
• Advising two sisters, in their capacities as both trustees and beneficiaries, in relation to a complicated family dispute with their brother who had failed to properly administer their mother's estate. The assets within the estate and the family trusts had a value of in excess of £1 million.
• Successfully resolving a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 on behalf of a husband who had not received reasonable provision from his second wife's estate. This claim was settled on very favourable terms at a mediation.
• Acting for a client who had commenced High Court proceedings seeking substantial damages from his former solicitor and barrister for allegedly negligent advice given to him to settle a complicated commercial claim.
• Bringing a claim against a client's former solicitors for giving inadequate advice about litigation costs.
• Advising a client in a claim against his solicitor for failing to provide advice about the existence of evidence of compliance with buildings regulations.
• Obtaining a new Premises Licence for a chain restaurant in the new Westfield shopping centre, Stratford City, London
• Acting for a new educational client, advising on a range of licensing issues
• Providing general betting advice regarding an on line betting business which included advice on applying to vary the license
• Advising the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust upon a variation to their Premises Licence