Property work forms a major part of Mairi’s practice. Mairi accepts instructions in all aspects of property work, including commercial and residential landlord and tenant, mortgages, easements and trusts of land.
Mairi is frequently instructed in technical and complex aspects of property litigation, and has considerable experience given her work on the Land Registration team at the Law Commission prior to joining Chambers. She is also interested in cases which involve an element of insolvency.
Recent cases include:
- Successfully acting for a landlord in forfeiture proceedings of a high-value commercial lease
- Successfully applying for committal of a tenant in breach of a landlord’s injunction
- Advising in respect of two complex property transactions and the potential impact of various easements on those transactions
- Acting in a trial in the First-Tier Tribunal relating to prescription of an easement
- Acting for a Mosque opposing an injunction for re-entry sought by a purported tenant of one of its rooms
- Acting in a trial of an application for a declaration under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
- Acting for a landlord bringing rent recovery proceedings against a commercial tenant and advising on the implications of Covid-19 restrictions and the tenant’s argument that the lease was frustrated
- Advising a group of tenants as to a claim for collective enfranchisement under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993
- Advising a tenant in relation to a dispute as to the terms of a renewed commercial lease under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954