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Deputy District Judge
Part-time Lawyer Chairman of London Rent Assessment Panel and Leasehold Valuation Tribunal
CEDR Accredited Mediator
Member of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators
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| Education |
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LLB (Hons). University
of Birmingham
Gray's Inn Junior Exhibitioner and
Senior Award |
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| Practice |
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Landlord and
Tenant: including lease renewals
under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954,
dilapidations and repairing covenants
claims, lease construction, rent review,
user disputes, alterations, alienation,
assignments, sureties, new lease negotiations,
service charge claims, forfeiture
Property Litigation:
including contractual disputes concerning
sale/purchase of property, construction/enforcement
of agreements, easements, boundaries,
restrictive covenants, adverse possession
Mortgages: mortgage
possession claims, overriding interests,
undue influence, enforcement of guarantees
and bankers' duties generally
Professional Negligence: especially,
solicitors, surveyors, architects, engineers
General Commercial:
including all contractually based claims
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| Experience |
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Landlord and Tenant and
Property related disputes - a regular
lecturer to solicitors and other professionals
on these matters; General Commercial;
Employer's and Occupier's Liability
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Cohen & Others
v Baram [1994] 1 EGLR CA, (arbitrator's
costs)
Tye v House
[1997] 41 EG 160 (property purchasers'
lock-out agreements)
Bannister
v SGB plc [1997] 4 All ER 129
(automatic strike out)
Giblett v P & N E Murray Limited
Times Law Reports, May 25th 1999 (psychiatric
injury)
Edwards v Peter
Black Healthcare (Southern) Limited
Times Law Reports, May 27th
1999 (evidence and onus of proof)
Biguzzi v Rank Leisure plc
[1999] 1 WLR 1926 (Post-CPR Strike Out
Applications)
Close
Asset Finance Ltd v Care Graphics Machinery
Limited Times Law Reports 21st
March 2000 (Transfer of Title)
Surrey Asset Finance Ltd v National
Westminster Bank plc Times
Law Reports, November 30th 2000 (banking;
conversion of cheques)
Battersea
Freehold and Leasehold Property Co Ltd
v Wandsworth London BC Times
Law Reports 30th March 2001, 19 EG 148
(adverse possession)
Aran Caterers Ltd v Stepien Lake Gilbert
& Paling [2002] 1 EG 76
(solicitors' negligence)
Seechurn
v Ace Insurance SA-NV [2002]
2 Lloyd's Law Rep 390 (CA) (limitation
/ equitable estoppel)
Dugmore
v Swansea NHS Trust & Morriston
NHS Trust [2003] 1 All ER 333;
[2003] IRLR 164 (statutory duty - absolute
liability)
Wilson v Truelove [2003]
23 EG 136 (a case involving the construction
of an option agreement in respect of
a farm , the rule against perpetuities,
and issues of rectification and estoppel)
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Property Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association
London Common Law & Commercial Bar
Associations
Chancery Bar Association
Technology and Construction Court Bar
Association |
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Cycling, Jazz, Amateur
Magic, Gardening |
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