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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.

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Key contacts

James Hartley

James Hartley
Partner & National Head of Dispute Resolution

0345 077 9581

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Meet the team

Property Disputes Lawyers


National Head of Team

James Hartley

James Hartley
Partner

0345 077 9581

Simon Baigent

Simon Baigent
Partner

0345 274 6903

Clare Bellis

Clare Bellis
Partner

0186 578 1058

Adam Boyd
Partner

0345 271 6773

Mark Brown
Partner

0345 271 6764

Jill Carey

Jill Carey
Partner

0345 634 2548

Daniel Cuthbert
Partner

0345 026 7904

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Tim Foley
Partner

0345 340 4202

David Marsden

David Marsden
Partner

0345 404 1757

Philip Myers

Philip Myers
Partner

0345 030 5758

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Paul Tomkins
Partner

0345 050 3260

Tristan Duncan
Director

0345 166 6301

Robert Hill
Director

0345 274 6924

Edward Pickard

Edward Pickard
Director

0345 050 3608

David Quinn
Director

0345 166 6277

David Shakesby
Director

0345 030 5202

Paul Brown

Paul Brown
Managing Associate

0186 578 1020

Andrew Dashwood-Begg

Andrew Dashwood-Begg
Managing Associate

0186 578 1021

Tom Holden
Managing Associate

0345 271 6772

Beth Jenkins

Beth Jenkins
Managing Associate

0345 077 9657

Rosalyn Shephard

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

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Lisa Goodrich
Associate

0345 030 5805

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Testimonials

‘The size and experience of the Freeths team is very impressive. The team is technically astute, but they never lose sight of the commercial realities of any given situation. They get full marks from me!’

(The Legal 500, 2024)

‘The strength of the Freeths litigation team is their collective knowledge and experience. It is evident that the team work closely together and collaborate on matters.'

(The Legal 500, 2024)

‘A cohesive and effective team, with good communication ensuring that nothing gets missed.’

(The Legal 500, 2024)

'First class legal advice at a sensible cost. A firm which understands its clients and fosters an exceptional working relationship.’

(The Legal 500, 2024)

“We have been impressed by the complementary services offered by Freeths, in construction, tax, and planning and environment and property litigation.”

(Chambers & Partners, 2024)

“Freeths made the effort to understand our business and our team, which allowed them to cut through complex situations and tailor advice to reach a solution which suited us.”

(Chambers & Partners, 2024)

“It's a strong team with the ability to get to the nub of the issue.”

(Chambers & Partners, 2024)

“The Freeths team are consistently thorough and detail-oriented with impressive awareness of commerciality.”

(Chambers & Partners, 2024)

“The firm has a good team with individuals you can rely on for their in-depth knowledge of the sector.”

(Chambers & Partners, 2024)

"The [Property Litigation] team has a very good understanding of all litigation related matters, and a very diverse offering that is able to act as a one-stop shop. Most importantly, the team makes itself available at short notice, and delivers a high-quality product."

(The Legal 500, 2023)

Notable Work
  • 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.

Client service

‘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.

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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

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