Brit is the partner who heads up the private client team in Bower Bailey’s Oxford office. She joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 2004 and qualified in September 2006. Throughout her career Brit has specialised in private client work and has amassed a wealth of experience. She handles a wide variety of cases ranging from relatively straightforward estates to those which involve complex inheritance tax issues, business property relief claims and overseas assets. She has also developed an expertise in drafting Wills with complex trust arrangements to protect assets, which includes inheritance tax and trust administration advice.

Brit’s caseload often involves working with other professionals such as wealth planners and accountants to help achieve her clients’ objectives.  Brit prides herself on being able to give pragmatic but empathetic advice to clients, often in very sad and emotional circumstances.

Areas of expertise:

  • Wills
  • Inheritance tax planning
  • Probate and administration of estates
  • Trusts – both Will trusts and inter vivos trusts
  • Powers of Attorney
  • Court of Protection

Recent work:

  • Successfully completed the administration of an estate with complex double grossing tax elements
  • Obtained a grant of probate claiming business and agricultural reliefs in an estate worth in excess of £9m
  • Drafted mirror Wills with life interest trusts for a couple in their second marriage to protect the long-term interests of their respective children from their first marriages
  • Obtained a grant de bonis non in an estate (where the original executors died before an estate administration was finalised), liaising with the Probate Registry as to various complexities
  • Obtained a reseal of an overseas grant under the Colonial Probates Act 1892 to enable the administration of the deceased’s UK assets.

Personal interests:

Outside of work Brit enjoys spending time with her family and friends.