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Chambers of John Martin QC

8 NEW SQUARE, LINCOLN'S INN, LONDON, WC2A 3QP, ENGLAND
Tel:
Work 020 7306 0102
Fax:
Fax 020 7306 0095
DX:
311 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
Web:
www.wilberforce.co.uk
Email:

Jonathan Karas QC

Tel:
Work +44 20 7306 0102
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Wilberforce Chambers (Chambers of John Martin QC)

Position

Barrister specialising in all aspects of land law and use (including planning, compulsory purchase and related topics).

Career

Called 1986; took Silk 2006; Supplementary Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown (Common Law) (now the ‘B’ Panel) 1995-2000; Junior Counsel to the Crown (‘A’ Panel) 2000-06; co-author of ‘Unlawful Interference with Land’ (Sweet & Maxwell, 2nd edition 2002); contributor to ‘Hill & Redman’s Law of Landlord and Tenant’ and ‘Halsbury’s Laws on Compulsory Acquisition’; editor of ‘Halsbury’s Laws on Distress’ (reissue 2000), ‘Forestry Title’ (reissue 2009), ‘Perpetuities and Accumulations’ (reissue 2012).

Member

Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; Planning and Environment Bar Association; Compulsory Purchase Association.

Education

Trinity College, Oxford.

Practice Areas

Planning; Property - litigation; Property - landlord and tenant

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