Your challenges
Nobody wants a dispute. But if property is your business, whether buying and selling, developing, moving or just occupying, you need to understand the risks involved. Knowing the risks you can factor them into your commercial or personal decisions. Sometimes you can’t avoid a problem but must meet it head on. When that happens you need lawyers who can help you win your cases, or resolve them to your advantage.
Achieving your ambitions
Whatever the nature of your property dispute, we can help. Our clients range from institutional landowners, universities and Oxbridge colleges, NHS bodies and government departments, through farmers and commercial landlords and tenants to landed estates and private individuals.
You can use our expertise and experience in dealing with restrictive covenants, squatters, claims for adverse possession, town and village green applications, clearing development sites of occupiers, insolvency, ending tenancies, enforcing sale/development agreements and everything in between.
The strength you need
The five-strong, partner-led team that will work with you has experience advising all sorts of clients on all sorts of property related disputes. Between them, there’s not much they haven’t done before. Through the team, you’ll also be able to call on specialists in planning, environment, and trusts to make sure all bases are covered. Clients helped recently include St John’s College Cambridge, West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust, Greenwich London Borough Council, Norwich City College and Countrywide Legal Indemnities Limited.
Lawyers you can trust
We are justifiably proud of our reputation. The directories say that:
- “The quality of work is of an extremely high standard, and you know that you are going to get an excellent service”
- “Clients ‘have complete confidence in [our] abilities’”
- “Our lawyers are 'responsive and creative', ‘strong and thorough’ and have ‘fantastic clarity of expression and incredibly good overview of a case’”
- "We bring a 'holistic strategic understanding and tenacity' to your cases' whilst having 'persistence and a practical approach to reaching resolutions'"
- “We are ‘more approachable and flexible than large London firms’”