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.
Manaquel Company Ltd is the registered freehold owner of Dorchester Court in Herne Hill, an Art Deco estate of eight blocks containing 96 flats. Following inspections between March and June 2021, the London Borough of Lambeth, as…
The applicant, Janet D'Sa, was the defendant to possession proceedings brought against her by Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in the Wandsworth County Court. Following an earlier hearing on 21 July 2025 which gave…
Centrillion Point in Croydon is a former office building which Durkan Estates Limited converted into dwellings in the late 2000s and of which Wallace Estates Limited has been freeholder since 1 May 2014. On 4 January 2024 the…
Green Parks (Holdings) Limited owned the freehold of the intended Westbeach Holiday Resort at Westward Ho! near Bideford, Devon, which it proposed to develop in seven blocks. On 4 April 2016 it granted a 999-year headlease to…
The claimant, Save Titchmarsh and Upper Nene Countryside and Habitats (STAUNCH), a campaign group incorporated by guarantee, challenged the decision of North Northamptonshire Council of 21 November 2025 to grant hybrid planning…
On Tower UK Limited, a wholesale infrastructure provider, and AP Wireless II (UK) Limited, a site aggregator, are parties to expired agreements relating to telecommunications mast sites. On Tower served notices under paragraph 33…
The claimant, Andron Contract Services Limited, provides facilities management services such as cleaning and security to office buildings and shopping centres. From 19 October 2020 it provided those services at the Golden Square…
The appellant, Manaquel Company Limited, is the registered freehold proprietor of Dorchester Court, Herne Hill, an Art Deco estate of eight Grade II-listed blocks containing 96 flats, 73 of which were let on assured shorthold…
Mr and Mrs Mitchell, who describe themselves as professional landlords, have been the registered freehold proprietors since around January 1999 of 25 Waterloo Road, land adjoining 19 Quarry Hill Road and 19/21 Quarry Hill Road…
The appellant, Mr A.J. Clarke, appealed against assessments raised by HMRC on 9 January 2009 for the tax year ended 5 April 2006 and on 16 January 2009 for the tax year ended 5 April 2003, following an enquiry in which HMRC…
The Honourable Society of Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court, holds land and buildings at the Middle Temple in London under a Royal Charter dating from 1608. Most of the buildings are let, and the appeal concerned premises…
Mr David Sherratt and Mrs Elizabeth Sherratt built a farmhouse at Brickyard Farm, Pincet Lane, North Kilworth, Lutterworth, adjacent to farm buildings, under an outline planning permission dated 5 December 2006 for the erection…
Mrs Lia Kamhi held a long lease ("the Headlease") of Flat 32 Parkside, Knightsbridge, granted by Parkside Knightsbridge Ltd on 5 June 1996 for a term of 100 years less one day from 25 March 1994, at a premium of £250,000. On 21…
Mr and Mrs Henke jointly bought a freehold plot of land at Houghton, Huntingdon on 25 August 1982 for £20,000, the plot proving on fencing to comprise 2.66 acres and carrying outline planning permission for a single house. Some…
The appellant, Anthony Christopher Collins, sought a refund of VAT under the "Do it yourself (DIY) builders scheme" in respect of works converting part of a former stable block near Hereford into his own home. The stable block…
Riverside Housing Association Limited is a registered social landlord within section 2 of the Housing Act 1996, incorporated under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 as a company limited by guarantee, and it is…
PJG Developments Ltd, a company whose business is acquiring and refurbishing properties, appealed against a decision contained in a letter from the Customs of 26 April 2004 to the effect that it had been rightly charged VAT of…
The appellant, Leez Priory Ltd, operated an ancient country house set in some 40 acres of gardens, lawns and parkland in Essex, which had become the first country house in England to be granted a licence to conduct marriage…