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Giles Harrap

Professional Biography

Giles Harrap  is a specialist practitioner in claims for finacial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and other claims arising on death including claims for professional negligence in will making, undue influence and other claims concerning the abuse of the vulnerable or mentally incapacitated.

He is a ADR accredited mediator, a specialist mediator for inheritence related disputes and on the panel of the Pump Court Inheritance Mediation Service.

He regularly lectures for CLT, local Law Socities and STEP groups on the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.

Appointments and Memberships

Recorder 1994

Accredited Mediator (ADR Group) 2005

Member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists, the Professional Negligence Bar Association and the Chancery Bar Association.

Qualifications

LLB (London)

Called to the Bar 1971 (Inner Temple)

Cases and Publications

Coventry, deceased [1980] Ch 461

Callaghan, deceased [19985] Fam 1

Dawkins, deceased [1986] 2 FLR 360

Clarke v Brice Lance [1988] 1 WLR 881

Jessop v Jessop [1992] 1 DLR 591

Davis v Davis [1993] 1 FLR 54

Peach Gray & Co. v Sommers [1995] 2 All ER 513

Gray v Buss Merton [1999] PNLR 882

Hammond v Osborn [2002] WTLR 1125

Chappell v somers & Blake [2004] Ch 19

Re Rowinska [2006] WTLR 487

P v G, P and P (Family Provision: Relevance of divorce provision) [2006] 1 FLR 431

Re Seagrave [2007] 1WLR 2002

Outside Interests

Organic vegetable gardening and country sports