Eliza Eagling - 5 Stone Buildings
Junior counsel

Eliza Eagling

Call to Bar:2015

Chancery Traditional - Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024

"Eliza is frighteningly clever, very responsive, eager to help and very hardworking. She is clearly destined for silk."

Eliza has a busy junior practice across the full range of Chambers’ core areas including Art and Cultural Property.  She appears regularly in the High Court both as sole counsel and led.  Eliza is a French speaker and is often instructed in cases involving a French element.  She is a member of the LexisNexis Expert Panel for Private Client.

Chambers and Partners recommends her as a leading barrister in the Chambers UK Bar and Chambers High Net Worth guides, which describe her as matching “the ability of barristers far senior to her”.  She has been praised as“a rarity; she has laser-like focus and is able to develop sophisticated strategies whilst being a joy to work with”. 

Eliza has a keen interest in 1975 Act Claims and has been involved in leading cases including Cowan v Foreman.  She has recently been appointed to the editorial team of Inheritance Act Claims: Law Practice and Procedure.

Other recent and current instructions include Fielding v Simon C Dickinson Ltd, successfully defending the art dealer from a claim concerning the sale of a painting by the 18th century French painter Chardin; removing an executor and setting aside the transfer of properties on behalf of the charity WaterAid; and advising on the effect of the Human Rights Act 1998 on succession rights in the context of a gift of a Tuscan villa, now an academic centre.  Eliza is also involved in statutory will proceedings with issues of private international law involving India and Spain.

After completing pupillage in chambers in 2016, Eliza spent seven months in the Contentious Trusts and Succession group at Withers LLP, where she worked on a number of claims involving dynastic and high net worth estates.

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Chambers and Partners UK Bar 2024 - Traditional Chancery

"Eliza is frighteningly clever, very responsive, eager to help and very hardworking. She is clearly destined for silk."

About Eliza Eagling

Education and Qualifications
  • BA, Christ Church, Oxford University (French and Philosophy): First Class
  • GDL, BPP London: Distinction
  • LLM, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University: First Class
  • BPTC, BPP London: Outstanding
Scholarships & Prizes
  • Lord Mansfield Scholarship, top BPTC scholarship at Lincoln’s Inn
  • Hardwicke Scholar, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Advocacy Scholar, BPP
  • Sir William Wade Prize for Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Cambridge
  • Sir Emylyn Wade Prize for LLM result, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
  • Senior Scholar, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
  • Sir Richard Stapley Scholarship, external scholarship for the LLM)
  • Half Blue for Latin American and Ballroom dancing, Oxford
Professional Memberships

Eliza is a member of the Chancery Bar Association and Court of Protection Bar Association.  She sits on the Chancery Bar Association’s Wellbeing and Chambers Social Responsibility Sub-Committee.

Languages

Eliza lived in Paris during the year-abroad component of her degree, running dance and language classes for women in a rehabilitation centre for mental health problems. She is fluent in written and spoken French and is happy to accept instructions which have a French element.

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Publications and Lecturing

Eliza speaks at both chambers’ and external seminars regarding her practice areas. This includes seminars presented with Sarah Haren on Ilott v Mitson for STEP, William East on FDRs in the Chancery Division and Mark Baxter on gifting and investment by deputies and attorney in the Court of Protection.

Eliza regularly contributes to legal journals, including the following articles:

  • Re NRA: deprivation of liberty applications” Private Client Business [2016] 2
  • “Court of Protection: appointment of deputies” Elder Law Journal [2016] 1
  • “Backwards Tracing” Elder Law Journal [2016] 1
  • “FDRs in the Chancery Division” Elder Law Journal [2016] 3
  • “In defence of Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus” Private Client Business [2016] 6
  • “Staveley v HMRC”, co-written with Farrers for Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal (forthcoming)