James MacDougald

Barrister at Ten Old Square

Speaker

James is a chancery barrister specialising in trusts, estates and private client tax. He enjoys a balanced diet of litigation and non-contentious advisory work. He appears regularly in the English courts and is often instructed to assist parties to offshore trust litigation.

In the Chambers UK Bar guide James is ranked in the categories of Trusts (Band 1) and Chancery: Traditional (Band 3). In the Legal 500 guides he is ranked as a Leading Junior (tier 3) for both Private Wealth and Probate (London Bar) and Trusts and Private Wealth (Caribbean: English Bar Offshore).

James is an editor of Williams on Wills (11th edition) and Mellows: Taxation for Executors and Trustees and he regularly delivers talks and webinars on his core practice areas.