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Charles Auld
Work Department
Real Estate
Career
Called 1980
Charles has specialised in land-related matters for over 30 years. He has great experience of boundary litigation, restrictive covenants, easements and public rights of way. He regularly appears in Court; in the First-tier Tribunal (especially on land registration issues) and before the Upper Tribunal on applications relating to restrictive covenants. He has also appeared in the Court of Appeal on a number of occasions in land-related disputes.
Charles’s practice includes all aspects of landlord and tenant law, both commercial and residential, and also mobile home parks.
He remains familiar with some of the less well-known areas of law, such as the workings of the Settled Land Act 1925 or tenancies protected by the Rent Act 1977.
Additionally, Charles holds a Private Pilot’s Licence and he has advised commercial and private pilots who have needed assistance in their dealings with the Civil Aviation Authority (in respect of both licensing and aircraft maintenance issues).
Charles writes on legal topics, with articles published in the Conveyancer on the First-tier Tribunal and in the New Law Journal on the temporary closure of highways.
Memberships
Chancery Bar Association.
Education
- BA (Dunelm)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1Charles Auld – St John’s Chambers ‘Charles is a fiercely intelligent and effective advocate. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of land law and is a first-choice for real estate disputes.’
St John’s Chambers has ‘a strong team of barristers specialising in property work with a wide range of experience’. The team provides a strong offering across the full range of property matters, including landlord and tenant work, development disputes, easement and boundary disputes. Charles Auld, who is considered as ‘a safe pair of hands’, recently acted for the defendant in Bristol City Council v Knapp, in which the city council sent an application to ban a landlord under section 16 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016. Christopher Jones is heavily involved in proprietary estoppel claims involving substantial farms, easement and land ownership disputes. ‘An effective advocate’, John Sharples is ‘second-to-none when it comes to land disputes’ and was involved in Kitt v Jones, an easement matter concerning a vehicular right of way over one mixed livestock farming land of the servient owner.