Profile

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Commercial and chancery Litigation
Landlord and Tenant
Professional Negligence
Trusts, Wills and Estates
Insolvency

PRACTICE PROFILE

• Property
  Including mortgages, easements, conveyancing, co-ownership and nuisance
• Landlord and Tenant
  Both business and residential including forfeiture and renewal of business tenancies
• Commercial
  Including guarantees, insolvency, partnership, construction disputes, sale of goods and franchises
• Trusts, Wills and Estates
  Including Inheritance Act proceedings, construction of wills, administration of estates
• Professional Negligence
  Including claims against solicitors (particularly in connection with land transactions), surveyors and accountants
• Public Enquiries
  In connection with the registeration of town and village greens and public rights of way

NOTABLE CASES

• Peckham v Ellison (1999) 77 P&CR 27, CA (implied reservation of easements)
• Re Grattan [2001] WTLR 1305 (rectifi cation of wills)
• HM Customs & Excise v Akbar [2002] BPIR 62 (enforcement of VAT assessment)
• Bristol & West v Bartlett [2003] 1 WLR 284, CA (limitation for mortgage arrears)
• Scottish Equitable v Thompson [2003] HLR 690, CA (limitation for mortgage arrears)
• Cheltenham & Gloucester v Appleyard (The Times 29 March 2004), CA (mortgagee’s remedy of subrogation)
• Amicus v Dynamex Friction [2005] IRLR 724 (freezing injunctions)
• C & W Berry Ltd v. Armstrong-Moakes [2007] BPIR 1199 (effect of bankruptcy petition on charging order)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Inner Temple Pegasus Scholar in 1989 working at Chapman Tripp in Wellington, New Zealand.

Previously a member of Albion Chambers in Bristol until 1996.