Christopher Stoner KC

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.

Recent Cases

• 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 & 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 was served pursuant to s.17 of the Landlord & Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995.