Property


“Serle Court is a strong chambers with an increasing range of high quality property litigators”
The Legal 500
"an excellent set which is smart, efficient, responsive and commercial"
Chambers and Partners

Property

Chambers has a well-deserved reputation in property litigation, being recognised as one of the leading sets in London by both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.
Serle Court’s expertise across multiple disciplines and in every major jurisdiction around the world is unrivalled at the Bar. Our property expertise is complimented by the most well-respected counsel in civil fraud, trusts, insolvency, company and charities.

Our barristers advise on both contentious and non-contentious property matters and represent a wide variety of clients, including individuals, companies, surveyors and local authorities in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court, the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the Upper Tribunal (Tax & Chancery) as well as in mediation and arbitration.   We also act in property disputes in overseas jurisdictions and in the Privy Council.

What do we do?

  • Developments and sale of land: development agreements, joint ventures, contractual disputes, contracts for sale, options and pre-emption, overage, rights of light and other easements, modification of restrictive covenants, nuisance, injunctions, specific performance, issues with fractional investments, rights of refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, professional negligence (surveyors and solicitors).
  • Land issues: restrictive covenants, easements, boundary disputes, rights of light, registration of title, mortgages and charges, conveyancing disputes, licences, compulsory purchase, valuation issues, adverse possession, proprietary estoppel, co-ownership and beneficial interests and trusts of land matters.
  • Commercial property: 1954 Act renewals, dilapidations, rent recovery, service charges, rent reviews, break notices, covenants, forfeiture, consents, mortgages and charges, possession actions, professional negligence, injunctions, and CVAs.
  • Residential property: possession actions, forfeiture, mortgages and charges, valuation issues, consents, assignments, breaches of covenant, lease extensions, collective enfranchisement and right to manage, commonhold and service charge disputes, professional negligence.
  • Specialist advice: canals, water and waterways, rights of light, property fraud, injunctive relief.

This breadth of expertise is reflected and supported by members’ interdisciplinary skills. Most act across multiple practice areas and sectors and seamlessly handle all aspects of clients’ cases. This reduces the risk of disruption caused by the need to find new or additional counsel during a matter.

Members of chambers contribute to the leading text 'Rights of Light: The Modern Law' (LexisNexis) which gives targeted coverage of the rights of light, combines an explanation of legal framework with practical commentary about procedure and remedies, and contains contributions from surveyors on measuring and valuing loss of light.

Other leading texts which members author or contribute towards include “Restrictive Covenants and Freehold Land: A Practitioner's Guide” (LexisNexis); “Megarry's Manual of the Law of Real Property” (Sweet & Maxwell); and “Service Charges and Management” (Sweet & Maxwell).

Recent key cases include:

  • Docklock Limited v C Christo & Co Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 45
  • Blackhorse Investments (Borough) Limited v The London Borough of Southwark [2024] UKUT 33 (LC)  
  • Asturion Fondation v Alibrahim [2023] EWHC 3305 (Ch)
  • Mohammed v Daji [2023] EWHC 2761 (Ch)
  • Healey v Fraine [2023] EWCA Civ 549
  • Prescott Place Freeholders Limited v Batin & Donovan [2023] EHWC 435 (Ch)
  • Charles-Argyle Property Management Ltd v Boston Meadows Property Co Ltd [2023] EWHC 85 (Ch)
  • Dyer v Webb [2023] EWHC 1917 (KB)
  • Aurium Real Estate London Ultra Prime Ltd v Mishcon De Reya LLP [2022] EWHC 1253 (Ch)
  • Primavera Associates Ltd v Hertsmere BC [2022] EWHC 2685 (Ch)
  • Collins v Howell [2022] UKUT 72 (LC)
  • HAE Developments Ltd v The Croft Ealing Ltd [2022] UKUT 120 (LC)
  • Pitt & Others v Bodani [2022] EHWC
  • Eastern Pyramid Group Corporation SA v Spire House RTM Company Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 1658
  • Chuan-Hui v K Group Holdings Inc [2021] EWCA Civ 403

  

Our Property brochure is available to download here.

Please join our experts in conversation on LinkedIn by joining the Serle Court – Property Law Group here.


News & Events

  • News

    Andrew Francis writes for New Law Journal

    In this article Andrew Francis considers (with reference to a recent judgment of the Planning Court in House v Waverley... Read More

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    Blackhorse Investments (Borough) Limited v The London Borough of Southwark [2024] UKUT 33 (LC)

    Jonathan Upton has successfully resisted an application to set aside the whole of a final order modifying covenants in a... Read More

  • Events

    Property in Practice 005: Planning for protest: an essential toolkit for property practitioners

    Location: Serle Court, 6 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London, WC2A 3QS Read More

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    ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes: The UK Commercial Property Litigation and Disputes Forum 2024

    Location: Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch Read More


News & Events

  • News

    Andrew Francis writes for New Law Journal

    In this article Andrew Francis considers (with reference to a recent judgment of the Planning Court in House v Waverley... Read More

    News

    Blackhorse Investments (Borough) Limited v The London Borough of Southwark [2024] UKUT 33 (LC)

    Jonathan Upton has successfully resisted an application to set aside the whole of a final order modifying covenants in a... Read More

  • Events

    Property in Practice 005: Planning for protest: an essential toolkit for property practitioners

    Location: Serle Court, 6 New Square, Lincolns Inn, London, WC2A 3QS Read More

    Events

    ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes: The UK Commercial Property Litigation and Disputes Forum 2024

    Location: Thistle Hotel, Marble Arch Read More