Joanna Poole

Contentious trusts & estates

Joanna specialises in advising settlors, trustees, protectors and beneficiaries on the full range of trust disputes. She has particular experience of breach of trust claims, third party creditor claims and asset protection work.

Publications:

• Contributor to the second and third editions of Tolley's Inheritance Tax Planning;
• “Issues of Principle” (arbitration clauses in trust instruments),
  STEP Journal, January 2011, Volume 19 (with Toby Graham);
• “Switching assets from one shadowy hand to another”: piercing the veil of company and trust, Trusts & Trustees October 2010 (with Toby Graham)

Scholarships and Prizes:

• Major Scholarship from the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (for BVC)
• Conflict of Laws Prize (2003)
• Withers Prize for Trusts and Equity (2002)