Michelle Bendall > VWV > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Michelle Bendall

0117 314 5326 mbendall@vwv.co.uk View profile

Work Department

Property Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Michelle has worked for many years with public sector and private sector clients on a range of property disputes. She regularly works with local authorities, central government clients, private sector developers, office occupiers as well as partnerships, LLPs, schools, universities, charities and GP surgeries.

Michelle advises on 1954 Act issues, rent arrears, dilapidations, covenant disputes, break notices, unreasonable withholding of consent issues, disputes effecting developments, restrictive covenants and easement. Michelle also specialises in overage disputes, advice on obtaining vacant possession and dilapidations.

Meeting Your Needs

Michelle is a regular speaker at training events for her clients, the RICS, surveyor firms, local authorities and central government departments. She works hard to find resolutions to disputes rather than pushing ahead with needless and costly litigation. She has vast experience of mediations, negotiations, arbitrations and court proceedings. And is a robust but constructive negotiator and seeks to obtain the best result without recourse to the stress and expense of litigation.

What Others Say

“Head of Department Michelle Bendall enjoys an outstanding reputation across the region. Sources highlight her breadth of experience in contentious property and note that ‘her advice is very crisp and clear.”

She is ‘a clear-eyed legal thinker who is comprehensively versatile’.

She is recognised as being a ‘natural litigator’ and ‘very able, very commercial and can see the best way to get the client into the best situation’. 

She is also recognised as ‘an excellent lawyer, much loved by clients for getting them out of scrapes’. 

Michelle is recognised by Legal 500 as a leading individual who ‘takes into account the overall picture and position of the client’  with ‘superior knowledge of all aspects of property law, and sound tactical nous’.

Michelle’s clients recognise her as ‘excellent throughout’.

Memberships

Michelle is a member of the Property Litigation Association.