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