Hamlins LLP

Real Estate Disputes

Kate is a Partner in the Real Estate Disputes Team.

Kate is a property litigator who adopts an advisory and dispute resolution role, as well as a litigious one, on a wide variety of high profile real estate disputes. Kate deals with various breaches of leasehold covenants, including dilapidations, service charges, applications for consent to assign/underlet/alter, rent reviews and other landlord and tenant issues. She also deals with contractual and development disputes, including specific performance claims, injunctions, rights to light, restrictive covenant issues, joint venture disputes, party wall act disputes and the redevelopment of business premises.

In her time, Kate has also dealt with some boundary disputes, and is now dealing with a number of cases regarding business rates and the complexities of the statutory exemptions and reliefs. Kate acts on high profile real estate disputes for clients including high net worth individuals, property funds and developers. She is a keen advocate of alternative dispute resolution and has been able to settle a number of complex legal dispute at mediation or by without prejudice discussions. Clients describe Kate as an extremely talented property litigator, who goes the extra mile for her clients, finding a solution to every problem.

Partner, Hamlins, 2014 to date
Partner, Browne Jacobson LLP, 2011 - 2014
Associate, Nabarro LLP
Trained at Nabarro LLP; qualified in 2003

Kate is the Chair of the Property Litigation Association. She is a member of the Steering Committee for Property Litigation for Lexis Nexis and the expert litigator for Lexis Nexis Q&A.

Publications of note: Property Law Journal, Estates Gazette, Butterworths Costs Journal, Solicitors Journal.

Kate attended Brunel University and Nottingham Law School.