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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 very robust and creative advocate. He is first-class both in conference and on paper. He boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of property law and is a very effective property litigator.’
St John’s Chambers is a ‘first-class‘ set for property and construction law work, with ‘a range of experienced barristers and upcoming juniors‘. John Sharples is ‘outstanding on commercial property matters‘ – he recently acted for the respondent in Ali v Khatib & ors, a Court of Appeal case which resolved conflicting first instance authority to clarify the law relating to occupation rent, including the weight to be given to the occupying party’s conduct or circumstances when determining when rent is payable. James Pearce-Smith acts in construction disputes involving builders and subcontractors as well as in professional negligence claims against architects and developers. Christopher Jones, ‘very confident in court and in arbitrations‘, has a broad property practice, while Charles Auld, ‘a robust and creative advocate‘, has considerable experience dealing with boundary disputes, landlord and tenant work, rights of way, and land registration. Adam Boyle recently acted for the respondent in Philpott v Bovisand Park Limited, an unusual considering whether an applicant might prescriptively acquire an easement over land, notwithstanding permission to use the land having been granted, if they are in fact subjectively unaware that such permission has been granted.