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.
Capital Developments Waterloo Ltd was developing land and buildings on the south west side of Hicks Road, Waterloo, Liverpool, registered under title number MS322997, converting an existing office block into 44 residential…
Smar Holdings Limited is the freehold owner of land at Keynsham Garden Centre, Hicks Gate, Keynsham, Bristol. Between February and March 2019 it felled 8 field maples and 17 poplars there — nearly 54 cubic metres of timber over…
The applicant, Mrs Jolanta Cemke, aged 52 and suffering from back problems, anxiety and depression, and the respondent, Mr Krzysztof Cemke, aged 50 and in good health, cohabited and then married in 2000, separated in May 2010 and…
The dispute concerned a strip of land at Goodworth Clatford ("the Disputed Land") lying between the gardens of a row of cottages to the west and a tributary of the River Anton, known as the carrier, which serves as a trout…
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…
LSC Finance Ltd is an unregulated lender providing short-term finance for the purchase and development of real property; Mr Shaun Morley is its managing director and Mr Adam Turner its finance director. The first appellant, Mr…
The property at 159-167 Prince of Wales Road, London NW5 3PY comprises several long leasehold flats. The appellant, Assethold Limited, purchased both the freehold and the headlease of the property from Millcastle Limited on 10…
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 defendants own a retail building in Margate, Kent, forming part of a retail estate. By a lease dated 11 August 2006 they let the premises to Dreams plc for a term ending in 2031 at a market rent, on full tenant's repairing…
The claimant, Persimmon Homes (North East) Limited, controls part of the Upper Callerton site within the Callerton Neighbourhood Growth Area on the north-western fringe of Newcastle, allocated for approximately 3,000 homes by the…
XPL Ltd. operates a bus and coach depot at Plot 17 on the Harlow Business Park, Roydon Road, Harlow, from which it runs local bus services, school services, commuter coaches to London and private hire coaches. The site had been…
The claimant, British Malleable Iron Company Ltd, owns Vernon Road, Halesowen, a private road in an old industrial area with residential housing nearby, which forms the only vehicular access to an industrial estate known as Acorn…
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…
The Great Trippetts Estate, owned by the Marquess of Milford Haven and lying within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, had until 2002 been a mixed arable and dairy farm before falling into decline. In August 2005 Chichester…
The claimant, Mr Naeem Siraj, a barrister and local resident who had objected to the planning application, sought judicial review of Kirklees Council's decision to grant planning permission for the erection of an agricultural…
The Pakefield to Easton Bavents Site of Special Scientific Interest lies along and inland from the Suffolk coast between Southwold and Lowestoft, with the Easton Bavents cliffs at its southern end. The cliffs have long been…
Brent London Borough Council granted Ashia Centur Limited outline planning permission on 15 September 1993 for development of the former Twyford Tip site in London NW10 by the removal of tipped soil and the erection of an Asian…