Landlord and Tenant, Property Disputes, Land Disputes, Boundary Disputes; Professional Negligence; Contract Disputes including Building Contracts; Family and related law including Wills and Probate; Employment. BA (Hons) Law – Upper Second
Law Society Post Graduate Finals
Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in 1986.
Property, Landlord and Tenant, Land Law and Housing Disputes.
Professional Negligence against Solicitors, Barristers, Surveyors and others.
Children: Residence and Contact..
Family related matters including ancillary relief, disputes between cohabitants, Court of Protection.
Wills, Probate & Inheritance Act claims.
Contract Disputes both personal and commercial.
Rent Act – Business premises – Sub- Tenants. Reversed earlier Court of Appeal decision. Assured Tenancies – Meaning of let as a separate dwelling - meaning of cooking facilities– Housing Act 1988. Where a person had been deprived of an interest in property by the forgery of another, the fact of the forgery was no more than an important factor when considering whether to rectify the register of Title at the Land Registry and was not decisive. The Chancery Division held, in overturning an Adjudicator decision, that there were no exceptional and unusual circumstances to justify a finding that an implied reservation of an easement of necessity, or the reservation of a right of way from the common intention of the Parties, was to be implied which would enable the Applicant to obtain a right of way over a parcel of land. The case concerned rights of vehicle access. Long residential tenancy — Tenant effecting considerable improvements to premises — Assessment of rent on conversion to new assured periodic tenancy — Whether Rent Assessment Committee entitled to disregard improvements — Whether court entitled to assume Parliament did not intend the statutory provisions to produce an unfair result — Housing Act 1988, ss 13,14 — Local Government and Housing Act 1989, s 186, Sch 10