Gatehouse Chambers

Property barrister and mediator

John de Waal KC is a barrister specialising in real estate litigation and related professional negligence matters. He qualified as mediator with CEDR in 2001 and has mediated over 250 matters with a high settlement rate. 

He frequently mediates disputes in the following areas:

• negligence claims against solicitors, surveyors and other property professionals
• commercial landlord and tenant disputes including dilapidations claims
• claims involving rights of way and other easements
• claims involving trusts of land – ‘TOLATA’ claims
• claims concerning the estates of deceased persons and Inheritance Act claims
• family disputes including claims of proprietary estoppel
• neighbour and boundary disputes
• commercial disputes.

John has been a practising barrister for over 30 years and a KC since 2013. His practice is exclusively property and property-related professional negligence and he has appeared in all courts in England and Wales up to the Supreme Court.

John is the editor of the Law Society publication ‘Risk and Negligence in Property Transactions’ (2018). He speaks and writes on property related matters widely including having given talks to the Property Litigation Association and the Property Bar Association.

John is a member of the Civil Mediation Council.