Mike Scott > Cripps > Tunbridge Wells, England > Lawyer Profile
Cripps Offices
NUMBER 22
MOUNT EPHRAIM
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
Kent
TN4 8AS
England
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Mike Scott
Work Department
Real estate
Position
Senior partner with extensive experience in property dispute resolution, dealing with a wide range of property-related disputes, including landlord and tenant disputes, dilapidations, rent reviews, unreasonable withholding of consent, forfeiture, real property issues, easements, restrictive covenants, trespass, nuisance, squatters’ actions, boundary disputes, party wall actions, and rights to light disputes.
Career
Trained Cripps LLP; qualified 1996; associate 2000; partner 2002.
Memberships
Property Litigation Association.
Education
Whitgift School; Nottingham University (1992 BA joint honours); De Montfort University (1993 CPE; 1994 LPC).
Leisure
Golf, squash, tennis, films, music, travel.
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Real estate > Property litigation
Counting major property investors, HNWIs, and local authorities amongst its key clients, Cripps
’ property dispute resolution team has extensive expertise in property insolvency and residential leasehold enfranchisement. Operating out of Tunbridge Wells, Miles Paffard leads the team, deploying his ‘encyclopaedic knowledge’ to work on opposed business lease renewals, service charge disputes, and dilapidations. Mike Scott is a ‘first-rate litigator’, regularly handling contract disputes and development agreement issues, while Nitej Davda concentrates on residential and commercial landlord and tenant disputes. Having been promoted to partner in May 2022, Richard Housley focuses on issues concerning easements and covenants. In early 2024, the firm merged with Horsham-based firm PDT Solicitors, which added the expertise of Gail Morris, Craig Burton, James Clewlow and James Clewlow.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Real estate > Commercial property: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Construction
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Real estate > Environment and planning
- Private client > Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Kent, Surrey, Sussex
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Public sector > Public sector