About me
As a Partner and National Head of Real Estate Litigation, I bring over 30 years’ experience to resolving complex real estate disputes.
My particular focus is on those involving mines and minerals, rights of light, and restrictive covenants. I’m proud to be recognised nationally for my work in these areas. I am also the National Head of Real Estate, which encompasses both our transactional and disputes teams.
I act for developers, insurers and multi-occupiers, offering clear, commercially focused advice to help every client achieve the best outcome, whether through litigation, mediation or early resolution. I’m known for taking a pragmatic approach and for making even the most niche legal challenges feel manageable.
What I enjoy most is the intellectual challenge and the satisfaction of helping clients move forward with confidence.
Beyond work, I’m into fitness training, cycling and golf, and I’ve supported Crystal Palace for as long as I can remember. Some would say this shows resilience. I prefer to think of it as evidence of commitment.
My experience
- Successfully resisting dozens of mines and minerals claims brought against developers by owners or putative owners of subterranean mines and minerals and regarded by many as the “go to” mines and minerals lawyer.
- Successfully acting for a developer in defending application for an interim developer in rights of lights claim in Handston Investments v Abri Group [2024] EWHC 3523 (Ch)
- Successfully acting for a freeholder in multi-party application by 42 sub-tenants of part (and their mortgagees) for relief from forfeiture in mixed- use development in Derwent Lodge Estates v Signature Living Hotels Limited (in administration) [2025] 3 WLUK 402.
- Acting for UK Oil & Gas Plc in groundbreaking and heavily contested 5-day High Court anti-protest injunction to protect on-shore drilling sites (UKOG -v- Persons Unknown [2018] EWHC 2252 (Ch)).
- Acting for Signature care homes in 5-day s.84 LPA 1925 hearing in Upper Tribunal for variation of restrictive covenants to develop care home (Signature of St Albans (Property) Guernsey Ltd -v- Wragg [2019] UKUT 70 (LC) and in previous High Court proceedings for declaratory relief [2018] 2 W.L.R. 943
- Acting for A&P Shipyard and Mersey Docks & Harbour Company in Re Falmouth Dockyard [2017] UKUT 430 (LC) (acting for the owner of a commercial/military shipyard resisting by an application by superyacht boat builder under s.84 LPA 1925 to modify covenants affecting a “wet dock”).
- Member of the Property Litigation Association (PLA)