Nicola Bushby - Private Wealth Disputes Partner - Boodle Hatfield

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Nicola Bushby

Nicola Bushby, Private Wealth Disputes Partner, Boodle Hatfield

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Nicola Bushby, Private Wealth Disputes Partner, Boodle Hatfield

Nicola is a Partner in the firm's Private Wealth Disputes team. She specialises in trust and estate litigation for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families, often involving complex capacity issues.

Nicola has particular expertise in claims for breach of trust, inter-family disputes in relation to the administration of estates and constructive trusts, Will disputes and setting aside transactions by reason of mental incapacity and undue influence. Her cases regularly involve multiple jurisdictions and recovering money held offshore.

She has enormous strength across the whole spectrum of Court of Protection work, with particular emphasis on contentious financial applications concerning the estates and businesses of those who may have lost capacity to manage them, financial abuse, gift and statutory Will disputes and the removal of attorneys and deputies.

She is particularly skilful and experienced at dealing with the dynamics of family disputes and adept at untangling the most difficult and challenging of cases.

Track Record

Galazi & Anor v Christoforou & Ors [2019] EWHC 670 (Ch) – cost consequences arising from an order giving permission to make substantial amendments to the particulars of claim

AB v HT & Others [2018] EWCOP 2 – High Court case on the capacity to marry

Re M [2018] EWCOP 4 – Successful High Court appeal where a circuit judge had unfairly determined issues

Ageas v Insurance v Gunaratnam [2016] EWHC 845 (QB) – successfully bringing application for relief from sanction following matter being struck out when client was acting as litigant in person and defending appeal by Ageas

PB v RB and Another [2013] EWCOP B41 – appellate point about meaning of “prohibit” in context of Court of Protection

LBL v RYJ, VJ [2010] EWHC 2665

Awards & Rankings

Spears 500, Top Recommended Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyer, 2023

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2023

Spear’s 500, Top Recommended Contentious Trust Lawyer, 2021

Education & Qualification

University of East Anglia and University of Leiden

Qualified as a solicitor in 2012

Galazi & Anor v Christoforou & Ors [2019] EWHC 670 (Ch) – cost consequences arising from an order giving permission to make substantial amendments to the particulars of claim

AB v HT & Others [2018] EWCOP 2 – High Court case on the capacity to marry

Re M [2018] EWCOP 4 – Successful High Court appeal where a circuit judge had unfairly determined issues

Ageas v Insurance v Gunaratnam [2016] EWHC 845 (QB) – successfully bringing application for relief from sanction following matter being struck out when client was acting as litigant in person and defending appeal by Ageas

PB v RB and Another [2013] EWCOP B41 – appellate point about meaning of “prohibit” in context of Court of Protection

LBL v RYJ, VJ [2010] EWHC 2665

Spears 500, Top Recommended Contentious Tax & Trust Lawyer, 2023

Chambers HNW, Ranked Individual, 2023

Spear’s 500, Top Recommended Contentious Trust Lawyer, 2021

University of East Anglia and University of Leiden

Qualified as a solicitor in 2012