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Blake Lapthorn

NEW KINGS COURT, TOLLGATE, CHANDLER'S FORD, EASTLEIGH, HAMPSHIRE, SO53 3LG, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 02380 857264
Fax:
Fax 02380 908092
Web:
www.bllaw.co.uk
Email:
Southampton, Portsmouth, Oxford, London

Amanda Morris

Tel:
Work +44 23 8085 7483
Email:
Blake Lapthorn

Work Department

Real estate litigation.

Position

Amanda Morris heads up the property litigation team at Blake Lapthorn. She practices all forms of property litigation but particularly in the field of commercial landlord and tenant, specialising in advising landlords on remedies available in cases of tenant insolvency. She can advise on forfeiture, distress, enforcement of guarantees, original/former tenant liability, contested lease renewals and dilapidations claims. Outside the area of landlord and tenant she also deals with disputes over rights of way and other easements, trespass, adverse possession, boundary disputes, claims founded in estoppel and contractual disputes concerning property including warranty claims as well as professional negligence, claims arising from property transactions. She is co-author (with Donald Agnew) of ‘Neighbourhood Disputes: A Concise Guide to the Law and Practice’, published in January 2006 by Callow, the second edition of which was published in January 2011 by Wildy, Simmonds and Hill.

Career

Trained Thomas Eggar; qualified 1994; Sherwin Oliver 1997; partner 1999 (prior to its merger with Blake Lapthorn); partner 2001.

Member

Property Litigation Association.

Education

University of Warwick (1991 LLB Hons); College of Law, Guildford; Nottingham Law School (postgraduate diploma in Advanced Litigation).

Practice Areas

Litigation - commercial; Property - litigation

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