Kate Church > HCR Hewitsons > Cambridge, England > Lawyer Profile
HCR Hewitsons Offices
50-60 Station Road
CB1 2JH
England
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Kate Church
Work Department
Real Estate Litigation Team
Position
Senior Solicitor
Career
Kate advises on a wide range of property issues and disputes, both freehold and all aspects of Landlord and Tenant law (both commercial and residential) including dilapidations, enfranchisement/extended leases and agricultural tenancies.
Working closely with the Property and Agricultural Teams she has considerable expertise in advising on complex title issues, easements (including rights of access and rights of light), covenants, adverse possession and positively relishes the unusual and esoteric – take the case of the missing sixteenth century landlord.
She has dealt with cases at all levels, both through alternative dispute resolution and the Courts, the Land Registry Adjudicator, the Lands Chamber (previously known as the Lands Tribunal) – applications to discharge/modify restrictive covenants) and the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, covering the length and breadth of England and Wales from Teesside to Cornwall and the Solway Firth to the Solent.
Kate acts for a wide range of clients both private and commercial including charities and academic institutions and was noted in the Legal 500 for “Excellent personal service, very speedy responses and clear advice”’
Memberships
Kate is a member of the Property Litigation Association
Education
Kate read history at the University of York before completing the CPE and Law Society finals (first class) at the College of Law Chester. She joined Wild Hewitson & Shaw in 1987 and, on completing training, qualified into the Litigation Team in 1989. She is a member of the Property Litigation Association.
Lawyer Rankings
East Anglia > Real estate > Property litigation
HCR Hewitsons in Cambridge is highly regarded for commercial landlords and tenant cases, freehold developer disputes, as well as contentious residential and agriculture matters. Lead partner Natalie Minott is ‘able to effectively master a wide range of novel and complex issues quickly‘. Senior associate Kate Church ‘provides detailed, considered advice’. Senior associate Sarah Osborne, formerly of Birkett Long LLP, ‘has a fantastic knowledge on the subject‘. She recently advised a London-based landlord on a matter concerning a request for a lease extension.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Real estate > Commercial property: Cambridge
- Employment > Health and safety
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Cambridge
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Cambridge
- Real estate > Construction
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Cambridge
- Employment > Employment
- Employment > Pensions
- Real estate > Planning and environment
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Private client > Family
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms