About John Tunnard

John Tunnard is a partner and leads Shakespeare Martineau’s Bristol office. He is ranked as “Up and Coming” in Chambers & Partners HNW 2025 and is cited as “a superb technical lawyer” who “knows his stuff“. “Technically bright and great with clients”, John is “calm and measured, and he gets his clients where he needs to get them”. He is instructed in cases involving fraud, freezing injunctions, disclosure orders, estate disputes, breaches of trust and trustee removal. John advises on succession issues, including will validity claims and construction issues and claims under the Inheritance Act 1975, and in matters in the Court of Protection involving financial abuse, undue influence and capacity issues.