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I have worked for over 20 years for commercial and residential landlords and tenants ranging from one of the country’s largest housebuilders to local authorities and individuals, involving dispositions of freehold and leasehold interests, possession, rent arrears, disrepair, dilapidations and service charges. Considerable experience of acting in insurance backed and privately funded cases has enabled me to develop ways of enabling warring neighbours to achieve satisfactory outcomes to boundary disputes, through litigation, mediation, or preferably early informal resolution. I have successfully appeared in LT applications to resist the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants and advised clients regarding the enforcement and variation of such covenants. Acting for legal expenses insurance backed and privately funded cases for many years has given me vast experience of virtually all types of property work, ranging from conveyancing problems to disputes over bequests to charities and local authorities, litigation over interests in land, public and private rights of way, other easements, party wall disputes, and homelessness. As a trained Mediator, I have a substantial advantage in preparing and presenting cases for mediation. I have received formal training in advanced mediation advocacy and fully appreciates the different skills required for mediation. Having benefited from a pupillage at Keating Chambers, I have gained substantial experience of conducting TCC and other building litigation, from major construction developments to domestic dwellings and industrial workplaces. As a TECBAR Adjudicator since 1998, I am well placed to advise on the performance and enforcement of adjudications. In employment cases act I for employers and employees, with substantial experience of successful cases involving race, sex and disability discrimination, unfair dismissal, TUPE, and issues of whether the claimant was an employee, a worker or neither.Specialties: Property cases, including landlord and tenant, property rights, restrictive covenants and boundary disputes.Construction.Professional Liability of surveyors, architects, solicitors and others.Contract.Employment.

Listed skills include Mediation, Litigation, Dispute, Property Law, and 21 others.