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Recent Cases

  • CASES

    February 6, 2023

    Property Damage & Insurance Disputes

    Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 80

    The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the case of Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 80. They have overturned the first instance decision of DJ Fouracre, and the first appeal decision

  • CASES

    December 15, 2022

    Divorce & Financial Remedy, Real Estate, ToLATA

    Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648

    Head of Divorce & Financial Remedy, Zoë Saunders was led by Alexander Learmonth KC acting for the appellant in the Court of Appeal in high profile TOLATA case of Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648.

  • CASES

    November 21, 2022

    Boundary Disputes, Real Estate

    Philpott v Bovisand Park Limited

    Adam Boyle appeared for the Respondent in the recent case of Philpott v Bovisand Park Limited before the FTT, Property Chamber, Land Registration division. The case addressed whether a use can be “nec precario” if the user

  • CASES

    August 4, 2022

    Landlord & Tenant, Real Estate

    Ali v Khatib & ors [2022] EWCA Civ. 481 [2022] WTLR 811

    John Sharples acted for the successful respondents in an action for occupation rent at 1st instance and on appeal.  The Court of Appeal hearing was broadcast on YouTube here. The Court reconsidered the law relating to

  • CASES

    June 15, 2022

    Real Estate

    Banks v Blount [2022] EWHC 1491 (QB)

    Adam Boyle, appearing before the Honourable Mr Justice Ritchie, successfully defended the appeal on all of the grounds brought against the respondents in the case of Banks v Blount [2022] EWHC 1491 (QB). Instructed by Esther Stirling and

  • CASES

    May 10, 2021

    Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Real Estate

    P v D [2021]

    Adam Boyle acted in a week-long trial in front of HHJ Mitchell which involved various complicated agricultural law themes.

  • CASES

    February 27, 2020

    Real Estate, Wills & Trusts

    Scott v Allen [2019]; Smith, Binns & Clarke v Scott [2020]

    Natasha Dzameh successfully represented an administrator in joined trials in the High Court. The first concerned a claim by the administrator for an injunction, an account and other relief in relation to a property he alleged

  • CASES

    February 5, 2020

    Real Estate

    Scott v Bridge [2020] EWHC 3116 (Ch)

    John acted for the successful claimant, a very elderly lady with major health problems, in a claim to recover two houses and large cash deposits allegedly gifted to defendants, who were related to her by her son’s

  • CASES

    October 26, 2018

    Real Estate, Wills & Trusts

    Sollis v Leyshon & Leyshon [2018] EWHC 2853 (Ch)

    Natasha Dzameh represented the Defendants at a complex 3-day trial concerning breach of trust, duress, proprietary estoppel, resulting trusts, unconscionability, undue influence and unjust enrichment. The scope of the Claimant’s case was reduced to one of

  • CASES

    June 1, 2018

    Real Estate

    X v Y

    Adam helped to secure a circa quarter of a million pound settlement in a complicated multi-party commercial property damage case. The case involved a fire occurring as a result of the negligence of an adjacent business

  • CASES

    May 1, 2018

    Landlord & Tenant, Real Estate

    Food Convertors & Rothschild v Newell [2018] EWHC 926 (Ch)

    John Sharples acted for the successful respondent in an appeal which determined whether adverse possession of land was established by enclosure and whether a squatter who obtained possession could lose it by reasons other than dispossession

  • CASES

    May 1, 2018

    Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Real Estate

    Churston Golf Club v Haddock [2018] EWHC 347

    John Sharples acted for the successful respondent in an appeal which established, for the first time, that it was legally possible to create a fencing easement by express grant. The court also held that the obligation