St John’s Chambers is a ‘leading set’, which continues to ‘go from strength to strength’ and houses excellent barristers with a proven track record of handling inheritance disputes involving farmland estates, proprietary estoppel cases and farming partnership disputes. ‘Confident advocate and authoritative speaker’ Alex Troup KC successfully defended multiple partnership and estoppel claims against a high-value estate of a deceased farmer in Winter v Winter before the High Court. James Pearce-Smith, who garners praises for being ‘unflappable, always on top of the detail and turning the work round quickly’, recently represented a farm manager seeking a claim of £250,000 in unclaimed invoices in the case Jordan v Thorner. Oliver Wooding has ‘a strong advocacy’ and is defending proprietary estoppel claim Thomas v Atkins, defending a claim brought by the defendant's brother, who seeks to set aside a form confirming he had no interest in the farm on the grounds of undue influence. Christopher Jones is described as ‘excellent on his feet in court’.