Seddons GSC LLP

Seddons GSC LLP

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Real Estate Disputes

John Midgley

John Midgley

John is a Partner in the Property Disputes team and heads up the specialist Leasehold Enfranchisement team at Seddons. His clients include residential and commercial landlords, tenants and managing agents. John is a leading practitioner in the field of collective enfranchisement, lease extensions and right to manage claims, having been involved in numerous highly contentious cases. His work also includes possession/forfeiture proceedings, service charge/rent disputes, dilapidations claims, contentious business lease renewals and breach of covenant actions. John is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners. He writes regularly for the “UK Landlord” magazine and other publications on a variety of enfranchisement and landlord and tenant issues. John was instrumental in pioneering the Leasehold Reform Amendment Act 2014 and continues to work with parliamentarians on issues within the leasehold sector.
Daniel Robin

Daniel Robin

Daniel is a Partner and Head of our Property Disputes team. He acts in commercial disputes and real estate disputes for both corporate clients and individuals. He conducts matters of particular complexity in the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Court, First tier Tribunal, and Upper Tribunal and also acts in arbitration proceedings in the ICC. He is a specialist in matters concerning cross border jurisdiction, landlord and tenant law and real estate law. Recent experience includes: Representing a shareholder in a company owning and running a chain of nightclubs in a dispute with other shareholders; Obtaining and enforcing an High Court injunction against a Landlord who restricted access to leaseholders in a residential development; Successfully challenging jurisdiction of the English Courts in a claim concerning Saudi Arabian assets; Advising on complex rights of first refusal issues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987.
Lara Nyman

Lara Nyman

Lara is a Partner with the Dispute Resolution team specialising in property disputes, including landlord and tenant (both residential and commercial) rent and service charge recovery, forfeiture and possession claims, contested (and unopposed) lease renewals, enfranchisement and a variety of breaches of leasehold covenants including dilapidations and service charge disputes, applications for consent and other issues arising out of the terms of a lease. Lara’s specialism includes defective premises, boundary disputes, rights of way, right of light, party wall awards as well as real estate related professional negligence, rectification and misrepresentation claims, specific performance and real estate related insolvency. Lara’s clients include landlords, tenants, developers, hoteliers, property owners, investors, management agents and professionals. Lara has considerable experience in ADR including mediation and adjudication and advises on non-litigious ways of resolving potential disputes as well as conducting cases in the Court of Appeal, High Court, County Courts across the country, the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal and the Property Chamber of the First Tier Tribunal. Lara is a member of the Property Litigation Association and a committee member of the Education and Training committee of the PLA.

Team Services

We advise individuals and collective groups of individuals who encounter disputes and issues arising out of Real Estate ownership, control, management, acquisition or disposal, and all of the rights and obligations associated with Real Estate.

Our individual clients include Real Estate owners, investor owners, private landlords, tenants, collective groups of tenants, tenant owned companies and associations, based both here in the UK and overseas.

We deal with all aspects of landlord and tenant law, as well as development, planning, construction, mortgage issues, and rent & service charge collections. We are known for our expertise in leasehold and freehold enfranchisement law, and appear regularly for landlords and tenants in the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal and Upper Tribunal.

Our objective is to provide our clients with a coherent explanation of the law and comprehensive advice relevant to their particular circumstances. We aim to deliver practical and cost-effective solutions to the management and resolution of disputes, where possible without recourse to the Courts, and to eliminate or manage risk effectively and proportionately.
We offer alternative funding arrangements where the circumstances are appropriate.

The principal areas we cover are:

  • Tenant rights in respect of business tenancies, renewals and dilapidations
  • Freehold and leasehold enfranchisement
  • Misrepresentation and mis-selling of real estate
  • Disputes over shared ownership of real estate and related revenue
  • Breaches of contract, covenant, nuisance, and negligence
  • Tenants right of first refusal
  • Service charge challenges
  • Mismanagement, misappropriation, right to manage, appointment of managers
  • Variation of covenants and easements
  • Trespass issues
  • Construction
  • Planning
  • Rights of light