Practice area
Land and buildings: freehold and leasehold disputes, landlord and tenant (commercial and residential), conveyancing, easements and restrictive covenants, mortgages, land registration, and property-related planning disputes.
The Free Church of England ("FCE") is a nonconformist denomination founded in the mid-nineteenth century out of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, constituted by a deed poll and declaration of trust dated 31 August 1863…
The claimant, Tour des Finances NV GVBF, owns the Tour des Finances in Brussels, said to be the largest office building in Belgium and let principally to the Belgian federal government. It financed its acquisition of the property…
The appellant, Mr John Parker, owns property on land subject to a section 106 restriction of no more than 98 houses. On 10 May 2024 he wrote to Tendring District Council seeking information connected with planning application…
West Berkshire District Council, the local planning authority, brought proceedings concerning land south of Reading Road, Aldermaston, after reports in late August 2025 of suspicious activity suggesting development. On 3 November…
The claimant, Landlink (Stoke Mandeville) Ltd, owned 27 acres of undeveloped land south of Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire. Part of it was allocated under Policy H6b of the Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan, adopted in September…
The claimant is a building company in the Lawford, Mistley and Manningtree area of Essex; the defendant is a multi-academy trust operating five schools, including Manningtree High School. In 2015 the claimant entered into a land…
The applicant former wife and the respondent former husband married in July 2006 and separated in August 2021; they have three daughters, aged 18, 17 and 15, who live with her. Divorce and financial remedy proceedings concluded…
Mr Gaymer is the freehold owner of two golf courses, a club house and ancillary buildings originally known as the Mentmore Golf Course and Country Club, land adjacent to Mentmore Towers, a Grade 1 listed house held ultimately for…
Avon Freeholds Ltd is the freeholder of numbers 7–26 Cresta Court, Hanger Lane, London, a residential block containing 20 flats. Cresta Court E RTM Co Ltd was incorporated by leasehold owners of the premises to acquire the right…
Blackpool Borough Council, the local planning authority for the Blackpool area, brought a claim for a permanent injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 against the freehold owners of a site at the…
The claimant, Segrue Investments Limited, owned a former HSBC bank at the Forum, Marlborough Road, Swindon, which it intended to convert to residential use. Two chargeable developments arose: prior approval under Class R…
The dispute concerned the beneficial ownership of three two-bedroom mid-terraced properties in Chatham, Kent: 28 Grange Hill, 130 Castle Road and 44 Albany Road. HRP Complete Solutions LLP ("the Old LLP") was the beneficial…
Ashley Peters and Mary Joseph are son and mother. They fell out over the beneficial ownership of 1 Cicely Road, London SE15, legal title to which had been held jointly by Ms Joseph and Mr Peter Enulue, Mr Peters' father. After Mr…
Knights Developments Limited ("KDL") is an Isle of Man resident company, incorporated there on 27 November 2001 and at all material times a member of the Dandara group founded by Mr Daniel Tynan, whose ultimate controlling party…
The claimants, Harnek Singh Samra and Karnail Singh Samra, owned land at 103 Barclay Road, Smethwick and the site between 103 and 109 Barclay Road, which Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council compulsorily acquired in 2014. The…
The claimants, David Harris and Ewelina Dulewicz, borrowed from Peninsula Finance plc under a staged development finance facility secured by charges over two properties, Oakdale and Ford Plantation. They complained that the…
Nos. 12 and 14 Abercorn Place, London NW8 are two adjoining buildings forming part of a longer terrace of Grade II listed properties in the St John's Wood conservation area. Each building contains two self-contained maisonettes…
West One Loan Limited, a specialist short-term lender, held a mortgage over Dorchester House, Portnall Rise, Virginia Water, Surrey, the home of Anna Okroyan. The loan was originally short-term and its term was extended at the…
Mrs Renee Wasserman is the original lessee of Flat 4, Brinsdale Park, Brinsdale Road, London NW4, under a lease granted in 1987 which demised the flat and a garage and imposed a covenant not to park vehicles anywhere on the…
Futures Housing Group, a social landlord, obtained an anti-social behaviour injunction against Kyle Bond, granted on 24 November 2025 and made final on 16 December 2025. The background to the order was an extensive history of Mr…