Jessica Whooley LLB (Hons)

I can help you with a range of dispute resolution matters, including:

• claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
• Will validity claims/ disputes
• estate administration disputes
• trustee/ executor disputes
• equitable interests in land
• burial disputes
• contract disputes
• professional negligence
• property disputes, including boundary disputes and rights of way.

• Successfully reaching an early settlement in a claim challenging the validity of a will and concerns regarding lifetime spending purportedly on behalf of the deceased.
• Advising a beneficiary in relation to a claim against the executors of his father’s multi-million pound estate regarding their failure to distribute the estate for nearly a decade, and threats by the executors to sale our client’s home.
• Advising our client defending a claim brought by her siblings challenging the validity of a will leaving her a life interest to remain living in a property purchased equally with the deceased, in order her care needs whilst she was alive.
• Acting on behalf of a child claimant for reasonable financial provision from her father’s estate, having not been in a Will prepared before her birth.
• Successfully defending a boundary dispute in which the neighbours sought to have the client’s extension removed and/ or compensation for tens of thousands for alleged damage purportedly caused by the extension.
• Assisting with a successful mediation regarding a contractual dispute between two companies and drafting of a settlement agreement and necessary documentation.