Rupert is simply fantastic at advising in a commercial, practical manner

The Legal 500

A private client specialist who litigates, Rupert Ticehurst brings a profound understanding of private wealth to those facing the prospect of a dispute.

Rupert’s practice is divided between trust, probate and commercial litigation and advisory work. His experience provides him with a unique perspective and unrivalled instincts which have won him accolades from across the industry.

While most disputes are resolved without court proceedings, Rupert has acted in some of the most groundbreaking decisions within private wealth in the past 20 years.

Rupert is individually ranked as a top-tier Band 1 practitioner in the Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 guides. He was ranked by Best Lawyers 2024 as a leading specialist in the area of Trusts and Personal Tax and was named by Spear’s in 2023 as a ‘Top Recommended’ Contentious Tax and Trusts lawyer. In November 2021 his team won Contentious Trusts and Estates Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards, and in 2019 were named Chambers HNW Contentious Trust & Estates Team of the Year. Rupert was also ranked as a Thought Leader by the Who’s Who Legal: Private Client 2023 report.

Expertise

Dispute Resolution

Rupert’s practice is divided between trust, probate and commercial litigation and private client advisory work. He is a CEDR qualified mediator and acts as a trustee, executor and trust protector.

His cases include removal of trustees, protectors and executors (and defending removal claims); variation of trusts; rectification of trusts; challenging trustees’ decisions and advising trustees on making decisions in contentious circumstances; challenging trustees’ fees; claims for breach of fiduciary duty, misrepresentation and fraud; advising trustees in relation to divorce; freezing orders; claims for breach of contract; passing off and breach of trademark.

Rupert is one of the foremost trust litigators in England

Chambers & Partners (HNW)

Rupert Ticehurst recommends

1984

George Orwell
Terrifyingly prescient and a gripping yarn. One of the few books that translated well into film.

Stoner

John Williams
A brilliant but underrated novel. Williams brings his main character, Stoner, to life so effectively that I feel he is a close but rather disappointing lifelong friend.

On the Black Hill

Bruce Chatwin
I am indebted to my colleague, Ed Powles, for this recommendation. Like John Williams, Chatwin draws you into a life story that is simple, uneventful but totally compelling.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith
The novel focuses on my favourite fictional character, Francie Nolan, an eleven year old girl struggling to survive the poverty of early twentieth century New York. I felt as though I was walking the streets of Brooklyn with Francie during her adolescence, enduring great hardships and sadness with her.

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens
I acted in the play as a child (I was a street urchin with one line, “Scrooge is a miser”) and have had great affection for this novel ever since, reading it every year. FX’s 2019 adaptation adds an extraordinary dimension to the story.

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom
I could have chosen any of the seven books from the Shardlake series. This series follows the life of a barrister in Tudor London. Part history lesson, part escapism. Totally engaging.