Jill Carey
Partner | Manchester
“Extremely able and competent.”
The Legal 500
Call: 0345 634 2548 Mobile: 0796 636 9105
About Jill
Jill worked in the City of London for many years before relocating to the North West, and continues to work for clients all over the country. She has a great deal of experience across a wide range of property matters, including landlord and tenant issues, both non-opposed and opposed lease renewals, break options, nuisance claims, rent reviews, service charge disputes, dilapidations claims, forfeiture and termination of tenancies, vacant possession strategies, disputes relating to easements such as rights of way, boundary disputes, nuisance, and trespass claims.
Jill uses her experience in litigation to give smart property management advice, assisting clients in identifying and resolving potential disputes before they become an issue. She also provides regular support for other groups in the firm with real estate issues, including the Corporate, Insolvency and Finance teams. She has expertise in acting for both landlords and tenants as well as parties such as insurers or neighbour disputes. In particular she has acted for some very different clients, ranging from large institutional corporates and trusts to ultra high net worth individuals and charities.
Memberships
- Property Litigation Association
Contact Jill
Call: 0345 634 2548
Mobile: 0796 636 9105
Notable work & expertise
Her experience encompasses the full range of commercial and residential Real Estate Disputes work. This includes all types of landlord and tenant issues, rent reviews, breaches of covenants, opposed and non-opposed lease renewals and 1954 Act strategies, dilapidations claims, forfeiture and termination of tenancies, insolvency, possession actions, claims under development agreements, vacant possession strategies, overage and other land contracts, disputes relating to easements such as rights of way, boundary disputes, nuisance and trespass claims.
She also provides regular support for other groups in the firm with real estate issues, including the Corporate, Insolvency and Finance teams, and the unique occupational requirements of the Life Sciences clients.
Jill has expertise in acting for both landlords and tenants as well as parties such as insurers or neighbour disputes. In particular she has acted for some very different clients, ranging from large institutional corporates and trusts to ultra high net worth individuals and charities.
Recent Work
- Advising the owners of several large town centre shopping malls on the recovery of vacant possession from multiple tenants to facilitate redevelopment
- Advising the interim landlord of a multi-let warehouse on a substantial dilapidations claim and recovering sums from subtenants
- Acting for a large developer in relation to easements and rights over third party adjoining land
- Seeking possession where tenants were in substantial arrears
- Dealing with numerous breaches of alienation and alterations covenants
- Acting for a large pension fund on a number of complex inter-related 1954 Act lease renewals on a retail park where each one could have affected the rent for the others
- Acting for the landlord of one of London’s landmark buildings on a vacant possession strategy for the iconic top floors as well as numerous other issues with other floors let to office occupiers
- Advising the owner of a large site on encroachment by adjoining owners and claims for adverse possession
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