CHRIS JARMAN

CONTACT

13-14 Old Square

Reception at 14 Old Square
Lincoln’s Inn
London
WC2A 3UE
DX 52 London - Chancery Lane
T: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
F: +44 (0)20 7841 5825
E: clerks@13oldsquare.com

We are open between 8.30am
and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.

Outside of office hours please
call Justin Brown, Senior Clerk
on 0777 578 1995.

Year of Call: 1976
Education: MA Hons (Cantab)
Languages: German and French (working understanding)
Email: chrisjarman@13oldsquare.com

Areas of practice

Chris joined chambers on returning to the Bar in June 2006, after working on the solicitors’ side of the legal profession for 28 years: 6 years with Freshfields, and 22 years with Payne Hicks Beach, where he was a partner in the highly rated private client department for 20 years.

Chris’s experience and expertise covers a wide range of domestic and international trust, estate and tax planning work for both landed clients and entrepreneurs, whether based in the UK or abroad. His work has often encompassed strategic planning for family wealth; equally he has advised in several substantial trust or estate disputes, sometimes of an international character with no particular UK connection other than a desire for top quality trust advice.

Chris has been closely involved with both the tax, property and commercial aspects of substantial development disposals for landed clients, including VAT and SDLT issues as well as direct taxes.

While at Payne Hicks Beach Chris was noted in the 2006 Chambers directory as “ably qualified” and as having a “standout reputation on the tax side”; the previous year’s edition referred to an “impressive ability to master a brief even in ‘the most horrendously difficult’ cases”.

Publications

• “IHT Trust ‘Alignment’: A Guide to the New Regime” (Tolley, pub. September 2006) (shortlisted for STEP Private Client Book of the Year 2007)

• “Killing Off Royal Lives”, [2006] PCB Issue 1, Jan/Feb, 23 (on proposed reforms to the law of perpetuities & accumulations)

• "A Botched Reform?", [2007] PCB Issue 1, Jan/Feb, 2 (on a 2004 change to the inheritance tax "excluded property" rule)

• "Trustees with a Part Interest in Land", [2007] PCB Issue 4, Jul/Aug, 263 (on the impact of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, principally with reference to capital gains tax main residence relief)

• Post-death reallocation of property devolving on death", and related precedents, in Tolley's "Tax-Efficient Will Drafting" (pub. November 2007)

Chris is also a regular and well-respected contributor to the Trusts Discussion Forum

Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners
Charity Law Association
Law Society Tax Law Committee (past Chairman of Income Tax Sub-Committee
Revenue Bar Association