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Martin Dray

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Position

Barrister specialising in all aspects of real property law including landlord and tenant, adverse possession, contractual interpretation, easements, land registration, options, rights of pre-emption, restrictive covenants, development and overage agreements, and leasehold enfranchisement.

Cases include: Fivaz v Marlborough Knightsbridge Management Ltd [2020] UKUT 138 (Ch) (whether entrance door a landlord’s fixture); Corinium Gym Ventures Ltd v Stroud Regeneration Ltd [2019] EWHC 1589 (Ch) (wrongful rescission of agreement for lease; claim for specific performance and damages; liability for costs after concessions and compromise); O’Connor v The Proprietors, Strata Plan No.51 [2017] UKPC 45 (condominium strata title in the Turks and Caicos Islands; whether by-laws prohibiting short-term renting valid as restriction on use or invalid as a restriction on dealings), Patel v Freddy’s Ltd [2017] EWHC 73 (Ch) (land registration; rectification of the register; No.1 Deansgate (Residential) Ltd v No.1 Deansgate RTM Company Ltd [2013] UKUT Civ 0580 (LC) (right to manage); Dyer v Terry [2013] EWHC 209 (Ch) (adverse possession); Miller Properties Inc v Pastoll [2010] EWHC 2364 (Ch) (equitable charge; possession and sale); Donington Park Leisure Ltd v Wheatcroft & Son Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 94 (Apr) (contract terms); Topplan Estates Ltd v Townley [2004] EWCA Civ 1369, CA (adverse possession);

Macepark (Whittlebury) Ltd v Sargeant [2003] 1 WLR 2284, ChD (right of way – whether use of non-dominant land legitimate); JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd v Graham [2003] 1 AC 419, HL (adverse possession); Hallam Land Management Ltd v RJB Mining (UK) Ltd [2002] 2 EGLR 80, CA (claim for specific performance of option agreement).

Career

Qualified 1992, Gray’s Inn; deputy adjudicator to HM Land Registry 2008; judge of the first tier tribunal (property chamber) (part-time) 2013; deputy district judge 2015. Publications: contributor to The Law and Practice of Charging Orders on Land, 2013; joint editor, ‘Barnsley’s Land Options’ 4th edition, 2005, 5th edition, 2009 and 6th edition, 2016; contributor to Fisher & Lightwood’s ‘Law Of Mortgage’, 11th edition, 2001.

Memberships

Property Bar Association; Chancery Bar Association; LCLCBA.

Education

Christ’s Hospital; University of Bristol (1991 LLB Hons).