Forbes Solicitors

Property Litigation

Georgina specialises in all aspects of contentious property advice including business lease renewals, rent reviews, restrictive covenant issues, rights of occupation, landlord’s consents, dilapidations, and service charge disputes. Georgina is widely recognised (even by her peers at other firms who regularly recommend their clients to use Georgina when conflicted as) for having extensive experience specifically in complex and high value real estate disputes.

Client feedback confirms that Georgina is “approachable”, “she provides clear, concise and practical advice that can be explained at board level easily”. She is widely regarded in the North West for combining technical excellence with a pragmatic approach and clients consistently describe this as invaluable.

Georgina’s experience of acting for national commercial clients as well as private landlords has been an asset to the management and marketing of the team. She is always mindful of her client’s end goal ensuring an eye is always kept on managing client’s expectations and costs.

Georgina has expertise in advising, resolving, and litigating in the following areas: -

• Lease rectifications
• Rights of way / boundaries / adverse possession/party wall disputes
• Contested lease renewals under the 1954 Landlord and Tenant Act
• Dilapidations
• Break notice disputes
• Landlord’s options in relation to tenant’s breach (commercial)
• Residential landlord and tenant – from service of notices to eviction
• Restrictive covenants
• Telecoms Leases
• Licences to Assign/Vary
• Deeds of Surrender/Settlement/Variation
• Proceedings in the First Tier Property Tribunal

Georgina heads up the day to day running of the property litigation and now the Debt Collect team and supervises all work carried out by junior members of staff. Within three years at the firm, she has built fantastic relationships with clients and colleagues alike., the firm entrusting her to build the debt collect team as she has property litigation.