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Jonathan’s cases invariably involve land and property but span commercial, company, fraud, trust and insolvency law disputes and related professional negligence. Jonathan is recognised as a leading senior junior. He has appeared in courts and tribunals at all levels, including the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. He also acts in mediations and arbitrations. Jonathan is acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the fields of restrictive covenants, rights to light and other easements, leasehold enfranchisement, tenants’ rights of first refusal, right to manage and service charges. Jonathan is particularly experienced on matters relating to mixed-use developments. His cases regularly involve large group litigation. He is frequently instructed in relation to joint ventures, contracts for sale, options, injunctions, specific performance and orders for sale. Jonathan has particular experience of cases involving fraudulent dispositions, sham transactions and allegations of dishonesty. He has been involved in a number of cases involving the bona fides of a declaration of trust including Tigris Industries Inc v Ghassemian [2016] EWCA Civ 269; Saranovic v Saranovic The Times, March 21, 2017; and Premium Jet AG v Sutton [2017] EWHC 186 (QB).His trusts work encompasses co-ownership disputes and applications for orders for sale/TOLATA claims. He successfully argued for a resulting trust analysis in Chaudhary v Chaudhary [2013] EWCA Civ 758. He successfully appeared in the Upper Tribunal (Fancourt J) concerning the Ftt’s jurisdiction to determine an application by joint trustees in bankruptcy to register a restriction against a property held in joint names (Wolloff v Patel [2019] UKUT 333 (LC)). Jonathan has been ranked in Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 for many years.Jonathan accepts instructions directly from members of the public under the Public Access scheme.

Listed skills include Property Law, Dispute Resolution, Legal Advice, Litigation, and 22 others.