Chris undertakes work on all aspects of property litigation, including issues arising from covenants, easements, option agreements, development agreements and land registration, as well as having particular interests in rights of light and the law relating to inland waterways. 

Horsford v Horsford [2020] EWHC 584 (Ch): proprietary estoppel claim relating to a family farm. 

Ravenscroft v Canal & River Trust [2017] EWHC 1874: the principal issue was the meaning of 'main navigable channel’ for the purposes of the British Waterways Acts. 

Port of London Authority v Mendoza [2017] UKUT 146 (TCC) – established that the ‘mere’ mooring of a vessel, without more, was insufficient to establish adverse possession of the riverbed. 

Jones v Canal & River Trust [2018] Q.B. 305: consideration of the correct approach when an Article 8 defence is raised to a claim for removal of a vessel from a waterway. 

Stapleford Frog Island (Rainham) Limited v Port of London Authority [2017] UKUT 444 (TCC): proper construction of a lease. 

Phillips v Francis [2015] 1 W.L.R. 742: decision of the Court of Appeal as to the correct approach to the consultation requirements contained in the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 and accompanying Regulations in respect of the recovery of service charges for qualifying work. 

BOH Limited and Another v Eastern Power Networks (formerly EDF Energy Networks (EPN) plc [2011] 2 EGLR 105: Court of Appeal determination on issues relating to the continuation of a tenancy in circumstances of a split reversion including merger and whether service of notice of a s.25 notice as to part was valid.  

Scottish & Newcastle plc v Raguz [2008] 1 W.L.R. 2494 (House of Lords): whether valid notice served pursuant to s.17 of the Landlord & Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995. 

Chris combines acting as an advocate in some sports matters with sitting to determine sports disputes in others. Chris has experience across a wide variety of sports. Chris is a Sport Resolutions Arbitration Panel Member and served a term as a Judge of the FA Cost Cap Adjudication Panel.  

England and Wales Cricket Board Limited v Michael Vaughan (2023): successfully represented Michael Vaughan in his defence of a charge of breaching ECB directive 3.3. by allegedly using racist or discriminatory language prior to a game which took place nearly 13 years prior to the charge. The hearing attracted widespread publicity and comments in the press about Chris included: “It helped Vaughan’s case that one of the key witnesses … gave every impression of preferring to have faced the great West Indies bowling attacks of the 70s and 80s rather than Vaughan’s counsel, Christopher Stoner KC” (The Guardian); “A furiously competent KC” (The Guardian); “An old school silk of stout bearing and stentorian tones”; “Stoner did not so much blow a hole in it as a crater” (Daily Telegraph); “A measured but meticulous litigator” (The Times).  

As a member of The Football Association’s Judicial Panel determining many disputes, including The FA v Lucas Paqueta and Nottingham Forest FC v The FA.  

CAS 2015/A/4189: Acted for British Swimming, Adam Peaty, Francesca Halsall, Jemma Lowe and Chris Walker-Hebborn against World Governing Body FINA and successfully obtained ratification of world records.