Head of Real Estate, Christopher has extensive expertise in a wide variety of property issues.
- Real property
- Easements: rights of way, rights of support, rights to light and water rights
- Disputed ownership of land, adverse possession and boundary disputes
- Mobile homes
- Restrictive covenants
- Mortgages
- Sale of land: disputed title, misrepresentation, conditional contracts, overage
- Torts relating to land
- Proprietary estoppel
- Equitable claims
Landlord & Tenant
- Principally commercial and agricultural leases but also residential
- Lease construction
- 1954 Act renewals
- Rent reviews
- Dilapidations claims
- Breaches of covenant, particularly covenants against assignment
- Service charge disputes: Christopher advises on and appears in matters before the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.
- Leasehold enfranchisement
Christopher is a qualified mediator and can be instructed to mediate real estate disputes.
Professional memberships:
- Chancery Bar Association
- The Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (STEP)
- Association of Contentious Trust And Probate Specialists (ACTAPS)
- Agricultural Law Association
- Property Bar Association
Qualifications & awards:
- University of Bristol, LLB (Hons)
- University of the West of England, Bar Vocational Course
- Beddingfield Scholar at Gray’s Inn