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 claimant, Teresa Baker, is an Irish traveller who lives with her extended family in caravans on the back and middle plots of land known as Pickett's Yard, Salfords, Surrey; the front plot is occupied by Berry Collins, a…
Mr and Mrs Hill purchased land adjacent to 28 Badcock Road, Haslingfield, Cambridge at auction in October 2023. Haslingfield Parish Council nominated the land as an asset of community value on 20 October 2023, and South…
Cemex UK Operations Ltd applied for planning permission to extract sand and gravel from the Former Hamble Airfield in Hampshire, a former airfield of flat open land with no landscape, ecological or historical designations, but…
The claimant property developer purchased 32 Palace Court, Bayswater, from Eastern and Oriental (E&O), which had used 32 and 34 Palace Court as its UK headquarters until January 2021 and undertook to separate the two buildings…
Mr Carl Williams and his wife Susan own and live at The Old Coach House, near Llangollen in North Wales, which they bought in 2003 from the owners of the neighbouring Ystrad Hall, then a nursing home. The transfer of 9 September…
75 Gunterstone Road is a Victorian villa converted into eight flats, two of which — Flats A and B — are in the basement and had suffered damp penetration through their below-ground walls. In 2021 the landlord, Southern Land…
The appellant, Oakwood Great Oak Ltd, a property developer, purchased "Great Oak", Prowse Avenue, Bushey Heath, on 29 November 2022 for £2,400,000. The property was a substantial detached house built in the 1930s, comprising a…
The property is a converted studio flat in a four-storey end of terrace building at Flat 4, 122 Maryland Street, London. The respondent, Ms Paulina Madej, has been the tenant since September 2010. In February 2025 the appellant…
The appellants, EE Limited and Hutchinson 3G UK Limited, are mobile network operators occupying a telecommunications site on the roof of Castlemaine House in Wandsworth, of which the respondent, the London Borough of Wandsworth…
Wallace Estates Limited is the landlord of Centrillion Point in Croydon, a building subject to a remediation order made by the First-tier Tribunal on 4 January 2024 on the application of the leaseholders under section 123 of the…
Mr Jama Ahmed Farrah, aged 104 at the time of the appeal, was the landlord of a number of properties in Sheffield. On 6 March 2024 he pleaded guilty to, and was convicted of, two offences under section 1(3A) of the Protection…
The Thornaby Angling Association ("TAA"), one of the largest and oldest angling associations in the region with some 650 members, holds fishing rights over stretches of the River Tees derived from a conveyance dated 06 May 1949…
By an underlease dated 9 December 2015 the defendant landlord let warehouse premises in Ellesmere Port to the claimant tenant for a term expiring on 19 May 2025. The tenant covenanted to keep the property in good repair and to…
The claimant, Marie-Claire Di Mambro, objected to a proposed change of use of an agricultural building at Shoots Lane, Sheldon, Devon to a guesthouse. The first interested party, Arthur Airey, had applied on 5 March 2025 to East…
The claimant, Code Students (Nottingham) Limited, applied on 5 December 2023 for permission to develop two blocks of purpose-built student accommodation at 51 Glasshouse Street and 1 Cairns Street in Nottingham city centre ("the…
General Dynamics United Kingdom Limited (GDUK) is a judgment creditor of the State of Libya in the sum of around £28 million. It obtained a final charging order together with an order for sale and possession over a property at 7…
Mrs Reshma Tachkani holds the long lease of flat 10 at Thornfield Green, Camberley, a development of 24 residential units divided between four blocks set in their own gardens and grounds. She holds two leases, described by the…
The appellant, House for Homes Limited, owned a property at 11A Winchester Road, London. The London Borough of Waltham Forest, as local housing authority, imposed a financial penalty of £15,600 on the company for operating a…
The King Edward VII Hospital Estate at Midhurst, West Sussex, within the South Downs National Park, is a redevelopment of a former hospital and its grounds, permitted on the basis of "enabling development", whereby development…
TG Jones High Street Limited (HSL) and TG Jones Retail Holdings Limited (RHL), together the Plan Companies, formed part of the Modella Capital Limited group, which had acquired WH Smith PLC's high street retail business in 2025…