Alexander Drapkin

Barrister at 5 Stone Buildings

Speaker

Alexander has a broad traditional chancery practice incorporating both litigation and advisory work. His practice is predominantly split between all manner of trust and inheritance disputes, the work of the Court of Protection and non-contentious trust, estate and taxation advice.

Alexander’s contentious trust work includes all actions for breach of trust and the removal of trustees, establishing resulting and common intention constructive trusts, construction and rectification of trust documents, and applications for directions. In relation to estates, Alexander deals with probate and estate administration claims of all kinds, as well as claims for the construction and rectification of wills. In the Court of Protection Alexander predominantly accepts instructions in property and affairs cases but also acts in those with a welfare element. He is often instructed by the Official Solicitor.

Recent cases include Re PP [2017] EWCOP 29, [2016] EWCOP 65 and [2015] EWCOP 93, wrongdoing by attorneys engaged in tax planning; In the matter of Various Incapacitated Persons and the Appointment of Trust Corporations as Deputies [2018] EWCOP 3, led by David Rees QC, instructed by the trust corporations of 11 leading solicitors’ firms in a Court of Protection test case on their role as deputies for property and affairs; and Slattery v Jagger [2015] EWHC 3976 (Ch), will rectification and costs of the same