Oliver Mitchell > Chambers of Anna Vigars KC > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
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Oliver Mitchell
Work Department
Commercial; property and estates.
Position
Oliver’s practice encompasses property (commercial and residential), probate and trusts and commercial work. He has extensive experience acting for corporate clients, individuals and insolvency practitioners.
Oliver appears in the High Court, County Court and First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), and has been led in the Court of Appeal and High Court. His practice involves court and tribunal work on matters ranging across the field of property and estates, as well as a broad range of advisory and drafting work.
Career
Oliver will accept instructions covering a wide range of property and trusts/estates matters, including:
- Easements and covenants
- Trusts of land and proprietary estoppel
- Nuisance
- Landlord and tenant
- Possession and sale
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act claims
- Interpretation of wills
- Probate claims
- Applications in relation to trustees/personal representatives and the performance of their functions.
Water & Utilities
Oliver has a particular interest in the water industry, and more generally in the law relating to utilities and utility assets. He has an understanding of the statutory underpinnings of the utility sector, including detailed knowledge of the legal framework relating to public water and sewerage assets, having worked for almost two years within the in-house legal team of a large water and sewerage undertaker prior to practising at the Bar. He is therefore particularly happy to receive instructions in matters concerning rights and obligations in respect of utility services and assets.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Court of Protection Bar Association
Education
- BVC, The College of Law, Birmingham – Very Competent
- GDL, The College of Law, Birmingham – Distinction
- LLB Hons, The College of Law, Birmingham
- MA (Oxon), University of Oxford
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Chancery, probate, and tax
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Oliver Mitchell – Guildhall Chambers ‘Oliver gives very thorough advice and builds a good rapport with lay clients as he is personable and approachable.’
Members of Guildhall Chambers have ‘wide-ranging expertise‘ in property and construction disputes. William Batstone is ‘an effective advocate‘ who regularly acts for landowners, farmers, and arbitrators in rural property disputes. In 2023 he acted for two farm owners in Chaplin v Morgan, which considered the proper method of terminating farm business tenancies and 1986 Act tenancies, as well as for the claimant in Williams v TG & HM Williams and Sons, which is significant for addressing the question of the correct approach to satisfaction of an equity following Guest v Guest, with the claimant having farmed a family farm for several decades in the belief he would inherit it. Jay Jagasia ‘quickly gets to grips with complex factual situations‘ – he has recently been instructed, unled, for the defendants in Henwood v Copeland & McGaws, a High Court property dispute concerning an adverse possession claim against several valuable plots of land in Cornwall. Oliver Mitchell’s property practice includes cases concerning water, sewerage, and other utility assets as well as disputes over proprietary rights and boundaries.