Timothy Evans

The pressure continues to grow on parties to settle their disputes without incurring the time, expense and stress of taking them to a tribunal or a court.

As well as practising as an adviser and litigator, Tim is a certified Mediator, and offers a mediation service designed to identify the issues that really matter and to use the process to help the parties find practical solutions to their differences.

While Tim welcomes the opportunity to mediate almost any kind of dispute (other than in the specialist fields of matrimonial and employment disputes), his focus is on disputes over family money (whether or not held within corporate vehicles), which is the subject of his special expertise

Tim acts and advises in personal as well as corporate insolvencies, including insolvent partnerships and insolvent deceased person’s estates. All aspects of asset tracing and priorities.

Tim has extensive experience in advising on practical solutions to shareholder disputes in private companies.

• Contentious probate:

Tim acts and advises personal representatives, beneficiaries, and disappointed family members, including Inheritance Actwork.

• Contentious trusts:

In particular, disputes with offshore trustees, involving disclosure, professional negligence, asset tracing and fraud.

Tim has wide experience in dealing with the Charity Commission at all levels. His extensive work with the Trustees of the Borough Market resulted in the Commission accepting that the Market is a charity and has contributed to the subsequent revitalisation of the Market in recent years.

Principally arising out of probate matters, including complaints about negligent inheritance tax advice.

Principally the SDT, although some work in other professional disciplinary tribunals.