Christopher Hatton

Senior Associate
Christopher specialises in private wealth disputes, helping resolve contentious will, estate and trust matters.
Christopher specialises in private wealth disputes, helping resolve contentious will, estate and trust matters.

About

Christopher is an effective and approachable litigator, offering pragmatic and focused advice to clients on a range of trust and probate disputes.

Christopher has a straightforward approach to his work and adopts a calm demeanour to build trusting relationships with his clients. Christopher joined Stevens & Bolton in 2026 from a London firm.

Christopher guides clients through every stage of the litigation and dispute resolution process, advising on disputes around the validity of wills, for the removal of executors and trustees, under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 and around the administration of trusts and estates.

Expertise
Will, trust and estate disputes

Experience

  • Recent work
    • Advising a number of eligible claimants in claims for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
    • Acting for the litigation friend of a minor child, defending constructive trust and proprietary estoppel claims being advanced by his mother against his father’s estate.
    • Advising the widow of the deceased in a will forgery claim being advanced by their son.
    • Acting for a client in removing her sister as the executrix of their father’s estate and successfully resisting an application to wind up the deceased’s company.
    • Acting for the beneficiary of an estate in removing and replacing the executor and applying to the court for approval of the settlement on behalf of a protected party.
    • Advising independent administrators in Public Trustee v Cooper applications to bless their decision making.
    • Advising the attorney of a protected party seeking to realise an interest in a Gibraltarian trust.
  • Qualifications and recognition
    • Christopher is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and a member of the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).
  • Advising a number of eligible claimants in claims for reasonable financial provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
  • Acting for the litigation friend of a minor child, defending constructive trust and proprietary estoppel claims being advanced by his mother against his father’s estate.
  • Advising the widow of the deceased in a will forgery claim being advanced by their son.
  • Acting for a client in removing her sister as the executrix of their father’s estate and successfully resisting an application to wind up the deceased’s company.
  • Acting for the beneficiary of an estate in removing and replacing the executor and applying to the court for approval of the settlement on behalf of a protected party.
  • Advising independent administrators in Public Trustee v Cooper applications to bless their decision making.
  • Advising the attorney of a protected party seeking to realise an interest in a Gibraltarian trust.
  • Christopher is a member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and a member of the Contentious Trusts Association (ConTrA).

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