Property & Planning
Lisa has experience in dealing with a range of real property matters, including various rights of way and boundary disputes. She has advised and successfully acted on behalf of both claimants and defendants in numerous cases involving disputes between neighbours.
A large area of Lisa’s property law practice involves dealing with landlord and tenant matters. This includes attending hearings and drafting statements of case in possession proceeding in respect of business tenancies, secured tenancies as well as possession proceedings in respect of long leases under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. Additionally, Lisa has successfully conducted numerous trials involving issues of breach of covenants, service charges and dilapidations. Lisa is also frequently instructed by mortgagees in relation to possession proceedings as well as by both creditors and debtors the more complex charging order disputes involving issues of priority.
Lisa has recently been appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown by the Attorney General (Regional Panel B).
Property & Planning Cases
- J v P: Obtaining an injunction at trial restraining interference with a right of way to access a path;
- H v A: Acting for tenants in a very substantial dispute over the level of service and administration charges levied by the Defendant upon the Claimant in respect the Claimant’s portfolio of 10 properties. Case involved a high level analysis as to the terms of two long-term maintenance contracts (with a value of over £1m each) entered into by the Defendant as well as issues over compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations (SI 2015/102).
- B v N: Acting for defendants in a trial involving claims in nuisance and trespass arising from disputes over rights of access and rights of support on a wall; case settled favourably at Court.
- S v P: Advising a debtor as to whether a trust made in favour of a third party is binding on subsequent charge holder.
- N v J & R: Acting for third parties seeking to intervene in mortgagee possession proceedings on the basis that they had an overriding interest in the property.
- S v P: Advising a debtor as to whether a trust made in favour of a third party is binding on subsequent charge holder.
