Property and Construction Litigation
Foot Anstey has an established reputation as having the leading specialist Property and Construction Litigation team in the south west.
We pride ourselves on understanding the clients’ business and objectives. We provide excellent commercial advice coupled with cost effectiveness and a swift response.
Both teams deal with all aspects of contentious property disputes and it should be noted that a substantial amount of its work is advisory as well as dispute resolution.
By no means exhaustive, a list of the types of work the teams regularly deal with is set out below.
- Landlord and Tenant (lease renewals, service charge disputes, dilapidations, rent reviews, arrears)
- Self-help Remedies (distress, forfeiture by peaceable re-entry)
- Injunctions (nuisance, trespass)
- Defective Title Disputes (squatters, adverse possession)
- Forfeiture (advice on breaches of covenant, section 146 notices, remedies available to both landlord and tenant)
- Possession Actions (commercial, residential)
- Restrictive Covenants (advice on enforcement, lands Tribunal application
- Professional Negligence (Solicitors, Surveyors, Architects)
- Rights of Light, Rights of Way, and Boundary Disputes
- Building Disputes (defective works, delays, witholding payment)
- Party Wall Disputes
The Legal 500 2007 comments:
The “technically excellent” Richard Bagwell heads the property litigation team at Foot Anstey and is a specialist in real estate litigation with expertise across commercial, landlord and tenant and complex freehold disputes. John Westwell is particularly commended for this “pre-emptive negotiating and tactical play”.
For initial advice, please contact:
- Richard Bagwell on 01392 411221
- Toby Claridge on 01872 243333
