Property Disputes
Resolving your dispute with Real Estate Litigation
What is involved?
We act for a wide range of commercial businesses, institutions, landed estates and individuals on all real estate and property disputes including:
- The termination and renewal of business leases
- Dilapidations disputes
- Advice regarding break rights
- Easement and covenant disputes
- Issues relating to landlords’ consents
- Telecommunications issues
- Agricultural disputes
- Obtaining vacant possession for development
- Forfeiture
- Possession claims
- Professional indemnity claims arising from negligent property advice
- Right to light issues
- Rates mitigation schemes
- The reputational and business continuity risks presented by campaign and protest groups
Why choose Freeths?
- We have a regular programme of training events, where we share our knowledge and expertise with our clients – building your capacity to reduce your external legal spend
- We are praised by our clients as being “responsive, knowledgeable and excellent value for money”
- We provide you with dependable and strategic advice when you need it most with an early stage assessment of a dispute to achieve the result you want: faster, better, cheaper
- We also present bespoke training for a number of our clients taking account of the nature of their businesses and issues that regularly arise
Freeths understand that being experts in the management of real estate disputes is not enough. Our lawyers appreciate that our true value comes in applying our knowledge and experience to practical problems, which helps you to manage and resolve disputes quickly and efficiently.
Our focus is on the expense, time and risk of litigation so we do not ‘get lost’ in interesting legal points with no commercial impact. We pride ourselves on understanding your specific business needs, so that we do not simply offer you a list of legal options, but a practical solution tailored to your requirements.
Call our Real Estate Litigation team now to find out how we can help you.
Our other services include:
Key contacts
James Hartley
Partner & National Head of Dispute Resolution
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Property Disputes Lawyers
National Head of Team
James Hartley
Partner
0345 077 9581
Simon Baigent
Partner
0345 274 6903
Clare Bellis
Partner
0186 578 1058
Adam Boyd
Partner
0345 271 6773
Mark Brown
Partner
0345 271 6764
Jill Carey
Partner
0345 634 2548
Daniel Cuthbert
Partner
0345 026 7904
Tim Foley
Partner
0345 340 4202
David Marsden
Partner
0345 404 1757
Philip Myers
Partner
0345 030 5758
Paul Tomkins
Partner
0345 050 3260
Tristan Duncan
Director
0345 166 6301
Robert Hill
Director
0345 274 6924
Edward Pickard
Director
0345 050 3608
David Quinn
Director
0345 166 6277
David Shakesby
Director
0345 030 5202
Paul Brown
Managing Associate
0186 578 1020
Andrew Dashwood-Begg
Managing Associate
0186 578 1021
Tom Holden
Managing Associate
0345 271 6772
Beth Jenkins
Managing Associate
0345 077 9657
Rosalyn Shephard
Managing Associate
01865 781 023
Sarah Murray
Senior Associate
0345 030 5640
Tristan Sharples
Senior Associate
0345 271 6737
Natalie Bullin
Associate
0345 340 4205
Lisa Goodrich
Associate
0345 030 5805
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Articles 4th Sep 2023- Resolved a high value boundary dispute between quarreling neighbours. Our strategy out maneuvered the opponents and extinguished what was a highly emotive situation.
- Acting for Aldi in connection with an application for an injunction made by its tenant, Iceland, where Iceland was seeking to prevent Aldi from carrying out an extension to its supermarket in Cambridge. We provided both legal and commercial advice throughout and pushed the matter on such that we got to a full trial within 6 weeks at which the High Court dismissed Iceland’s application.
- Acting for a large Oxfordshire Landed Estate on a wide variety of property disputes. These included defending a claim to dedicate public rights of way over estate land through long public use, a claim to dedicate estate land as a village green, defending an adverse possession claim and advising in relation to removal of 1954 Act protected tenants to allow site development.
- Recent property disputes range from arguments over title, tenure and other property rights, through to high-value and complex claims for multi-million pound losses on commercial property transactions.
- Providing legal and tactical advice to landlords and tenants in connection with the termination and renewal of business tenancies.
- Acting for a landowner in connection with an urgent application to the High Court for an order for possession of commercial property. The property was being occupied by trespassers who were fly-tipping significant quantities of waste on the land. We prepared the application, got the application before the judge, obtained an order for possession and organised for High Court enforcement officers to enforce the order and carry out the eviction on the very same day.
- Advising a client regarding a trespass on their land in relation to substantial building works undertaken by a third party and threatening injunctive proceedings and/or a claim for damages against the perpetrator.
- Advising on diverse aspects of property litigation issues including rights of way, party wall claims, rights to light issues, dilapidation claims, applications to assign, insolvencies, forfeiture and repossession, lease renewals and applications to assign/underlet.
- Acting for a farmer on an AHA tenancy challenging a notice to quit (settled favourably at arbitration) where the client’s land was the centre of a proposed new housing development.
- Acting for a national housing developer in relation to a boundary dispute and negotiating a settlement which allowed the development to continue.
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‘Doing the right thing’ is at the heart of Freeths. Find out more about our excellent client service and the strong set of values that guide the way we work.
Talk to us
Freeths are a leading national law firm with 13 offices across the UK. If you have a query about our services or just want to find out more, why not give us a call?
Contact: 03301 001 014