Richard Oughton is Head of the Chancery Department.

He took a double first in law at St John’s College, Cambridge, before obtaining a Master of Laws degree at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

He has extensive experience in all aspects of general chancery and commercial work with a particular emphasis on wills, trusts, succession and related areas of taxation, mortgages and secured lending, landlord and tenant (commercial and private sector-residential).

Publications:

Author, Second and Third Editions Tyler’s Family Provision

Assistant Editor, Tenth Edition and Supplement Fisher and Lightwood’s Law of Mortgage

Memberships:

Northern Ireland Bar

Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners

Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists

Chancery Bar Association

Northern Chancery Bar Association (Secretary 1995-7)