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 Bisiker family fell into dispute about the beneficial ownership of 'Moonhills', a substantial five-bedroom property with 4.5 acres near Beaulieu in Hampshire, registered at HM Land Registry in the name of Judith Bisiker since…
Kiloran Properties Limited, a Jersey company beneficially owned by Miss Amanda Clutterbuck, is the registered leasehold owner of Flat 1, 44-45 Hans Place and 80 Pavilion Road (First Floor Flat), London. Bank of Scotland held…
The appellant, Paradise Island Lighthouse and Beach Club Company Limited, was incorporated on 4 June 2018 by Mr Toby Smith, a Bahamian citizen, as the vehicle to receive a proposed 21-year Crown lease of five acres of land on…
The appellant, Vincent Chent-Wei Teo, holds a sub-lease dated 25 May 2000 of Flat 1, Rockstead, 18 West Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, for the remainder of a term of 99 years less three days, having become registered proprietor on…
Mr Wesley Warren, the applicant, is the son of Mrs Susan Ebanks, the respondent. The dispute concerned 30 Christchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea, registered in the respondent's sole name, and whether the applicant had a beneficial…
The applicants, Guy Thompson and Joanne Todd, bought 12 Clough Lane, Mixenden, near Halifax, in 2007. Their registered freehold title extends to a small area at the front of the terraced house but, at the rear, no further than…
The claimant, Oisin Fanning, borrowed £6.3mn from the defendant, Tenn Capital Limited, in November 2022, secured against his freehold interest in the Garden Flat at 48 Grosvenor Square, London. He defaulted in February 2023 and…
The applicants, Ms Jill Ruth Schultz and Mr John Mark Hammersley, own 5 Moseley Row, Wilmore Hill Lane, Hopton, Stafford, the last of five houses fronting a small private yard or roadway off Wilmore Hill Lane. The respondents, Mr…
Mr and Mrs Grogan are the registered proprietors of the leasehold property at 220 Queensway, Rochdale, under title number GM497074, which they purchased in 1989. Behind their house lies a strip of unregistered land forming part…
The applicant, John Bartlett Jones, is the registered proprietor of 5 and 7 Spring Vale Road, Hayfield, High Peak. He has lived at 5 since 1974 and purchased the neighbouring 7 in 1994 from a mortgagee selling under a power of…
Michael Peter Munro is the registered proprietor of 5 Burnham Road, Epworth, Doncaster, title number HS334872. Direct UK Marketing Limited, trading as "Stop Repossession Experts", applied to HM Land Registry to enter a unilateral…
The claimant is West London National Health Service Trust, freehold owner of Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital and of a house at 29 Eastern Lane, Crowthorne, within the hospital estate. The defendant, a retired nurse who had worked…
Y Bryn Wind Farm Limited applied under section 62D of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 and determined pursuant to The Developments of National Significance (Wales) (Amendment)…
On 2 June 2016 the four appellants, Alan, Thomas, Carol and Benjamin Pontin, completed the sale of their shares in Highland Holdings Limited ("HHL") to Crest Nicholson Operations Limited ("CNOL"). HHL's only asset was the entire…
Grace Baillie Key died on 28 September 2022 aged 84, leaving a will dated 11 November 2014. Her two adult children, Laura and Richard Key, are the joint executors and sole beneficiaries. The principal assets are Ebury Lodge in…
The applicants, Hughes Family Property Co Ltd and Hughes Trading Co Ltd, own 28 Redwalls Meadow, Dartmouth, a house and garden occupied by Mr Bradley Hughes, a director and shareholder of both companies. Part of the garden — a…
Maureen Smith occupies land at Clayton Lane, Thurnscoe, in the Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council area, which she has used as a caravan site for gypsy travellers with associated hardstanding, two utility units and a cess tank…
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust owns Queen Mary's Hospital, East Heath Road, a prime Hampstead site with substantial redevelopment potential which has not been used as a hospital since about 2008. By a lease dated 1…
The applicant, Mr John Bladon, owns 4 Polls Yard, Castor, Cambridgeshire, one of four dwellings arranged around a communal courtyard developed under a 1991 planning permission for two barn conversions and two new dwellings. A…
The claimant, Derek Kelly, lives at Pembroke House in Oxfordshire, next door to Chalfont, 3 Wroslyn Road, the property of the interested party, Frank Creese. In March 2023 West Oxfordshire District Council granted the interested…