Norman Lamb

PROFILE

Since the completion of his pupillage in 2019, Norman has developed a practice in chancery and commercial law. He joined the Business and Property Group at 9 St John Street in 2020. Norman is regularly instructed to appear in courts across England & Wales and has built a reputation for his thorough case preparation and client care.

Prior to his pupillage, Norman worked as a Court Advocate across the Northern Circuit. He gained experience in a wide range of commercial and civil disputes, involving county court advocacy and case preparation on behalf of industry-leading clients, both professional and lay. Throughout university, Norman regularly completed in advocacy competitions both nationally and internationally.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

TRUST, WILLS, PROBATE & ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES

Including: TOLATA disputes, Inheritance Act matters, property and possession disputes in probate matters.

Recent experience includes:

• Injunctive relief: advising an executor attempting to secure documents and goods subject to a will.
• Proceedings involving the indefinite continuation of an injunction in relation to rights of way over land.
• Applications to execute Land Registry documents.
• Advising a trustee in relation to amending the beneficiaries of a ceased trust.
• An application to transfer estate property to a beneficiary after a change of administrator.
• An application to the court for directions to administer and distribute an estate.

PROPERTY

Including: boundary disputes, adverse possession, Party Wall Act matters, Land Registration Act matters, estoppel.

Recent experience includes:

• Advising on a claim for adverse possession.
• Party Wall Act dispute: advising in a dispute between client and insurer.

TORTS

Including: conversion, bailment, Torts (Interference with Goods) Act.

Recent experience includes:

• Torts (Interference with Goods) Act: proceedings involving an abandoned Ferrari.
• Bailment and conversion: equine case involving a horse mistakenly handed to the wrong owners.

LANDLORD & TENANT

Including: possession proceedings, Landlord & Tenant Act matters, commercial and residential leases.

Recent experience includes:

• Advising in a dispute between tenant, pension trust firm and manufacturing company.
• Advising and drafting in a dispute between a public house owner and tenant; relief from forfeiture.
• Advising and drafting on behalf of a haulage company.
• Business lease extensions.

COMMERCIAL

Including: contractual disputes.

Recent experience includes:

• Acting in a commercial dispute between nursery provider and technology company.
• Acting against a vehicle training firm in a debt dispute.
• Defending a vehicle garage against breach of contract allegations.
• Advising a 3,000 acre UK estate/hospitality group.
• COVID-19 claims and defences.

COMPANY & INSOLVENCY

Including: winding up petitions, restoration of companies to the register.

Recent experience includes:

• Advising and appearing in winding up petitions.
• Company restoration hearings.

OTHER

Including: injunctive relief, summary and default judgment, professional negligence, CCMCs, applications, allocation, directions, procedure.

Recent experience includes:

• Drafting in a professional negligence matter against a firm involving in the negligent registration of land.

Complementing his Business & Property practice, Norman has extensive experience undertaking matters involving the wider civil law. Recently, Norman advised on the rules of international service in relation to proceedings brought in Germany by a bank against a Defendant based in England.