The Property / Chancery Group comprises over 20 members dealing with disputes relating to rights over land, as well as related areas such as planning and construction.
In addition to providing specialist advice and representation in relation to litigation, members of the group regularly appear in the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, Lands Tribunal and before the Land Registry Adjudicator.
The Group regularly organise seminars and lectures for professional clients on developing areas of law (accredited by the Law Society to provide CPD points) and the Group's members contribute to a variety of publications on the subject of property law.
Members of the Group act for the full range of landowners from large corporations and local authorities to individuals, commercial and residential tenants, banks and building societies, insolvency practitioners, bankrupts and their spouses, licensees and trespassers.
A number of members of the group take work under the Bar Council's Licensed Access scheme (formerly referred to as Direct Professional Access), allowing licensed professionals (such as surveyors) to instruct members direct.
Members of the group have recently appeared in cases dealing with the following areas:
• Real Property
• Mortgages
• Insolvency
• Trusts
• Equitable remedies
• Planning
• Professional Negligence relating to property