Daniel Edwards
Partner
daniel.edwards@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)330 045 2533
Daniel leads the Browne Jacobson Inheritance and Trusts Disputes team, which works closely with the firm’s private client team. He has over a decade of experience in dealing with the full range of disputes that might arise in relation to the assets of private individuals.
Daniel’s approach is always a pragmatic one. He prides himself on getting to the heart of an issue in a cost effective manner, and avoiding “legal jargon” in his dealings with his clients.
He has particular experience in post-death disputes involving family businesses, especially farming partnerships. A lot of his work has a property element, whether involving large amounts of agricultural land, or disputed interests in property.
Whilst the work he does typically occurs after a bereavement, he is often asked to either give pre-emptive advice, or to assist in relation to issues that might arise with “life-time trusts”.
Disputes that arise after somebody’s death are often multi-faceted; Daniel is able to draw on a significant breadth of professional experience to successfully handle such disputes.
Featured experience
Dispute over who should be Executors
Successfully applying for replacement professional personal representatives at a contested hearing. Securing the clients a hand in the administration of their son’s estate, and the Trust that resulted for their grandchild.
Fraudulent Will claim
Defending a challenge to a Will based on allegations that witnesses did not sign in the presence of the testator, and fraudulently added their signatures post-death.
Life-time gift challenge
Successfully defending a challenge to a life-time gift of a million pound property
Estoppel
A five day trial relating to a promise that a property, the clients’ home, would be transferred to them by one party’s parents in return for them doing some associated building works.
Testimonial
“He’s clever, practical, client focussed and has great judgment – everything you’d want”
