Monika Byrska

Practice Areas

Monika Byrska is a bilingual solicitor specialising in trust, will and estate disputes. She advises in all types of private client disputes. This includes: will challenges, Inheritance Act claims, disputes relating to the administration of estates, actions against trustees and personal representatives, promissory estoppel claims, trust disputes between co-owners of a property, and application for directions in administration of trusts and estates.

As a STEP-qualified practitioner, she is uniquely qualified to assist with both contentious and non-contentious aspects of trust and estate administration. She therefore also represents personal representatives and trustees advising on the administration of trusts and estates, which are complex or entangled in disputes. As Monika often meets clients when they are going through their most difficult times, she aims to put them at ease with her straightforward and compassionate approach. She has passion and years of experience in resolving what may seem to be the most impossible disputes over wealth.

She is bilingual and able to service clients in Polish. With a background in linguistics and interpretation, Monika also has a working knowledge of a couple other European languages.

Professional Memberships

Monika is a full member of ACTAPS, ConTRa, STEP and the STEP Special Interest Group for Contentious Trusts and Estates and Cross-Border Estates.

Publications

Monika regularly speaks at professional events, both onshore and offshore such as the TL4 Channel Island Conference in Guernsey (October 2022, also scheduled for October 2023) she spoke on a panel tackling the issue of "Succession by Generation Z". In March 2023, she spoke alongside Professor Robin Jacoby and Constance McDonnell, KC on "dynamics of a modern family" at the TL4 Contentious Probate and Inheritance Claims conference in London.