Trust & Estate Litigation Forum (TELF) 2020

Serle Court will be, once again, sponsoring the Trust & Estates Litigation Forum 2020 taking place in Marrakech, Morocco, from Wednesday, 26th to Friday, 28th February 2020.

The conference is a great opportunity for trust and estate litigators to gather, connect and discuss recent contentious trust proceedings from across the globe.

Dakis Hagen QC, one of the members of the Private Client Global Elite Advisory Board, will be co-chairing the conference. John Machell QC will be speaking on 'Legitimate children, trusts and human rights' and Professor Jonathan Harris QC on 'Conflict of laws: Exclusive jurisdiction clauses in trusts'.

Dominic Dowley QC will be attending the event.

Serle Court is proud to be the only set of chambers to sponsor this event and look forward to contributing to another successful year.

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Dominic Dowley KC

Call: 1983
Silk: 2002

John Machell KC has a broad commercial chancery practice, with particular experience in large-scale litigation involving trusts, fiduciary/director duties, and fraud, particularly with an international dimension.

John is regarded as one of the leading partnership and LLP silks and has experience of a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious matters across the whole range of business sectors. A large part of his work involves issues arising from the use of partnerships and LLPs in hedge fund and private equity structures; in international commercial group structures; and as part of wealth planning strategies.

A substantial part of John’s practice is offshore, and he has appeared in the courts of Grand Cayman, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda on several occasions in recent years.