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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

Resolving inheritance claims: procedure and ADR