Wednesday, 18 March 2026
Chair
Geoffry Underwood, Barrister, Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Estate Litigation: The Past 12 Months – Family Provision Claims and Other Significant Cases
- Analyse recent estate litigation judgments highlighting emerging trends and judicial reasoning
- Consider the practical implications and how these decisions may inform future claims and defences
Presented by John Armfield, Barrister & Mediator, Two Wentworth Chambers; Preeminent Wills and Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Presenters
Geoffry Underwood, Barrister, Sixth Floor Selborne Wentworth ChambersGeoffry Underwood is a barrister practising from Sixth Floor, Selborne Wentworth Chambers, 174 Phillip Street Sydney. He practises principally in the area of Equity, Estate and Family Provision advising and litigation. He has been involved in Estate Litigation on a regular basis for over 20 years. He has many interests outside the law including family, travel, golf and classical music.
John Armfield, Barrister & Mediator, Two Wentworth Chambers
John has been practicing at the NSW Bar for 44 years as counsel in wills and estates matters and related litigation. He has long been recognised in Doyles Guide as a leading junior counsel in 2015, 2017-2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 as a pre-eminent and recommended leading wills and estates junior counsel. His particular expertise spans family provision law, testamentary capacity, informal wills, estoppel in estate litigation and the rights of beneficiaries to obtain information in relation to the administration of trusts. Approachable as he is, his colleagues and members of the broader legal profession have come to rely on John’s guidance, counsel and assistance to resolve complex wills & estates matters. John is an accredited mediator. He is approached to act as mediator and instructed as counsel to appear for parties in more than 100 mediations a year. For the most part, he achieves an inordinate number of settlements either as Counsel, or as mediator assisting parties to reach a result they find acceptable in their circumstances. John is a regular legal conference speaker including STEP, the Blue Mountains Conference, Ten The Education Network and other various legal education channels together with his own Floor’s conference.
