I am a legal director in our property disputes team. With the benefit of experience, fresh ideas and the ability to keep a cool head, I find solutions by identifying the key issues and ‘seeing the wood for the trees’.
I am a longstanding member of the property dispute resolution team at Cripps, with over 20 years’ experience of advising on property-related disputes.
I act for institutional investors; landlords of commercial and residential property; property developers and tenants of commercial premises.
I am experienced in a wide range of landlord and tenant disputes and real property disputes.
Areas of expertise:
- Complex dilapidations claims
- Service charge disputes
- Tenant insolvency
- Lease renewals
- Restrictive covenants
- Easements
- Disputes following acquisitions and disposals of land
Qualifications and memberships
- Admitted as a solicitor in October 1993
- Member of the Property Litigation Association
If I'm unavailable, please contact:
Melissa Redshaw
Legal Secretary +44 (0)1892 506 304 [email protected]
Clare Crowhurst
PA and Legal Secretary Team Leader +44 (0)1892 506 211 [email protected]
My experience
Acting for the tenant of a landmark building in the City of London in connection with a complex and high value dilapidations claim and related service charge dispute.
Acting for a commercial tenant in complex business lease proceedings involving four inter-connected offices with four different landlords and the subsequent referral to PACT.
Advising the landlord of a newly refurbished landmark building in London’s West End on setting up the service charge regime for its new commercial and residential tenants.
Acting for a large residential landlord on its property portfolio, including a substantial service charge dispute with long leaseholders of a residential block.
Advising shopping centre owner clients on landlord and tenant issues: lease renewals, tenant insolvency, recovery of rent and service charges and other types of tenant default.
Advising developer clients on interpretation and enforcement of sale agreements, option agreements, restrictive covenants and rights of way.
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