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Priya joined chambers as a tenant in October 2023 following the successful completion of her pupillage in chambers. As a pupil, Priya was involved in the following reported cases: Dalriada Trustees Limited v HMRC [2023] UKFTT 00314 (TC); Pead v Prostate Cancer UK & Ors [2023] EWHC 642 (Ch) and Hinduja v Hinduja [2022] EWCA Civ 1492.

Since becoming a tenant, Priya has developed a busy chancery practice. Priya has advised on a wide range of matters relating to chambers’ core practice areas, both led and unled. Examples of her recent work include:

• Acting for a corporate trustee in an application for a blessing in relation to a large-scale employee benefit trust. Led by Penelope Reed KC.
• Advising both claimants and defendants in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
• Representing clients in claims relating to the administration of estates, including claims for the removal and substitution of executors and contentious probate claims.
• Drafting pleadings in a range of claims involving real property, such as ToLATA and proprietary estoppel claims.
• Advising on equitable claims including challenges to lifetime transfers as a result of undue influence or testamentary capacity.
• Advising on non-contentious matters such as the proper construction of a will and non-contentious drafting such as deeds of appointment.
• Work in the Court of Protection, with a particular focus on property and affairs matters, including advising on proposed statutory will and deputyship applications.
• Representing clients in relation to applications for the approval of settlements on behalf of minors or incapacitated persons.
• Advising and representing two separate taxpayers in their appeals to the First-tier Tribunal against assessments by HMRC to income tax and lifetime inheritance tax. Both led by Oliver Marre.

Accordingly, Priya welcomes instructions in all of chambers’ practice areas.

Before coming to the Bar, Priya worked on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Thereafter, she spent a year working in the Trusts, Estates and Inheritance Disputes team at the leading international private client firm, Withers LLP.