All aspects of property litigation, including all aspects of landlord and tenant (both commercial and residential), dilapidations, business lease renewals and leasehold enfranchisement. Specific performance, restrictive covenants and more general real estate disputes including boundary disputes, right of way disputes and beneficial owner disputes.
Recent cases include:
- acted for a claimant in relation to a disputed beneficial ownership dispute between family members over certain residential properties that were purchased by a family with differing financial contributions and various representations made over the course of a decade as to beneficial ownership
- advised and acted for a leading pharmaceutical company in relation to a disputed terminal dilapidations claim
- acted for a property developer obtaining orders for specific performance requiring purchasers to complete their purchases
- represented a claimant seeking to declaratory relief to ensure that overage was payable by a property developer who had simply let the final property on a short term tenancy in circumstances where the overage was only payable on the sale of that final property
- obtained declaratory and injunctive relief in relation to disputed boundary between residential properties in circumstances where the adjoining landowner was in the course of constructing an outhouse whose foundations straddled the disputed boundary
- successfully obtained declaratory relief that a landlord had unreasonably withheld consent to assign a lease of commercial premises in a well-known shopping centre
- advised on the nature and effect of various restrictive covenants and rights of way and how they may impact on the development of land
- obtained urgent interim injunctive relief to prevent ongoing works where no party wall act notice had been served
