5 Stone Buildings are an outstanding set able to cover the full range of private client matters. They’re accessible and the go-to set in private client and tax matters.

Arabella has a broad chancery practice and has acted in a wide range of cases as sole and junior counsel. Her experience includes acting in and advising on:

• Contentious probate claims;
• Trusts disputes (onshore and offshore);
• Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975;
• Issues arising out of estate administration;
• Matters involving the construction or rectification of wills;
• Interests in property (disputed lifetime transactions and undue influence, proprietary estoppel claims, common intention constructive trust disputes, possession proceedings);
• Court of Protection matters (in particular, property and affairs cases);
• Art and cultural property matters;
• Tax issues relating to these areas; and
• Professional negligence claims relating to these areas.

Recent reported cases include Gladstone v White [2023] EWHC 329 (Ch), a High Court proprietary estoppel trial in which Arabella acted unled, Bond v Webster [2024] EWHC 1972, a lengthy High Court probate trial in which she acted as a junior, and the Court of Appeal judgment in Lorenz v Caruana [2025] EWCA Civ 606 (led by Penelope Reed KC), a secret trusts case.

Arabella graduated from Cambridge with a First in ab initio Russian and French. She achieved a Distinction on the City University law conversion course, placing third in her year, and then obtained the highest Outstanding overall mark in the Lincoln’s Inn cohort for her BPTC year, for which she was awarded the Lincoln’s Inn Student of the Year prize / Ede & Ravenscroft Wig and Gown prize, a Lincoln’s Inn Buchanan prize and the Barstow Scholarship from City University.

Before coming to the Bar, Arabella lived and worked in Russia for a year and also worked at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (a United Nations agency) in Geneva.