Giles Harrap
Giles Harrap is a specialist practitioner in claims for financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, and other claims arising on death, including claims for professional negligence in will-making, undue influence and other claims concerning the abuse of the vulnerable or mentally incapacitated.
He is an ADR accredited mediator, a specialist mediator for inheritance related disputes and on the panel of the Pump Court Inheritance Mediation Service.
Appointments and Memberships
- Recorder 1994 Accredited Mediator (ADR Group) 2005
- Member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists, The Professional Negligence Bar Association, and The Chancery Bar Association.
Qualifications
- LLB (London)
- Called to the Bar 1971 (Inner Temple)
Cases and Publications
- Coventry, deceased [1980] Ch 461
- Callaghan, deceased [1985] Fam 1
- Dawkins, deceased [1986] 2 FLR 360
- Clarke v Brice Lance [1988] 1 WLR 881
- Jessop v Jessop [1992] 1 DLR 591
- Davis v Davis [1993] 1 FLR 54
- Peach Gray & Co. v Sommers [1995] 2 All ER 513
- Gray v Buss Merton [1999] PNLR 882
- Hammond v Osborn [2002] WTLR 1125
- Chappell v Somers & Blake [2004] Ch 19
- Re Rowinska [2006] WTLR 487
- P v G, P and P (Family Provision: Relevance of Divorce Provision) [2006] 1 FLR 431
- Re Seagrave [2007] 1WLR 2002
Claims by adult children under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (“the Act”) – lessons from recent cases
- Asking the right question
- Adults in need: what does it take to succeed? o Myers (2005)Adults in need: what are the limits?
- H v M & others (2010)
- Giving reasons for cutting out adult children
- Impact of conduct
- Good and bad
- Bye v Colvin-Scott (2010)
- The quantification of awards
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