Expertise

Judith advises beneficiaries, trustees and personal representatives on a variety of trust and succession disputes, from Inheritance Act claims to complex international trust restructuring. She also handles matters in the Court of Protection involving those who lack capacity, and has acted on a number of appeals to the Privy Council from several jurisdictions.

She has written extensively for legal publications, including the STEP Journal, Trusts Quarterly Review, International Family Offices Journal and TL4, and has spoken at conferences and webinars on topics ranging from forged wills to Public Trustee v Cooper applications. She has also been quoted by CNN and The Times about sealed wills.

Experience

• Acting for the principal beneficiary in contentious trust restructuring proceedings in the Channel Islands, which included the landmark Jersey Court of Appeal decision in G, H and K v SG Kleinwort Hambros Trust (CI) Limited and others [2023] JCA088 concerning the scope of the non-intervention principle
• Acting for the successful appellants in two landmark appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council: Wong v Grand View Private Trust Company [2022] UKPC 47 and Bermuda Bar Council v Walkers (Bermuda) Limited [2019] UKPC 25
• Acting in long-running Court of Protection proceedings concerning the validity of lasting powers of attorney and an application for a lifetime gift and statutory will.

Career

Judith studied music at Cambridge University. She trained at Farrer & Co and spent three years at BDB Pitmans before joining Stewarts in 2021.

Accreditations and Memberships

Judith is an associate member of the Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). She is also a member of the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).

Publications and speaking engagements

• Disclosure and discretion, Trusts Quarterly Review, March 2026
• Escaping disaster: how do you rescue a case that is going wrong?, speaking on a panel at ConTrA Trusts in Litigation conference in Lisbon, March 2026
• Quoted by The Times on sealed wills, December 2025
• Articles for TL4’s Private Client and Disputes magazines, including on acting for minor and unborn children (December 2024), the non-intervention principle (July 2024), trustee capacity (March 2024) and challenges to estate executors (December 2023)
• Articles for the International Family Offices Journal on A practical perspective on proper purpose (June 2024) and Recent trends in litigation (September 2023)
• Stress testing trust processes and structures: can anything be bombproof? speaking on a panel at TL4 Private Client Guernsey and Jersey, September and October 2023
• In the public eye, STEP Journal, August 2022
• Featured on the Is That Even Legal? podcast episode Prince Philip’s Will Must Be Secret for 90 Years(February 2022) and quoted by CNN on the same topic in its article, A court battle is brewing over Prince Philip’s will (November 2021)
• Testamentary capacity: Goodfellow for our times, Trusts and Estates Law and Tax Journal, July/August 2021.

Recognition

• Judith is described in Legal 500 as “super on the ball” and as “a very bright and hard-working associate”
• She is described in Chambers and Partners HNW as “patient with clients, empathetic and understanding” and “very responsive and very quick”.