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Adam Boyle
Work Department
Wills & Trusts, Real Estate, Commercial, Mediation, Court of Protection
Career
Call: 2012
Adam is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister who now practises predominantly in cases involving land and property. However, he has significant experience in the full scope of commercial and chancery work including wills, trusts & probate, court of protection, and commercial disputes.
At the beginning of his career at the Bar, Adam spent a large proportion of his time advising and assisting a hub of Welsh Authorities in relation to public procurement contracts worth circa £300,000,000. This gave him early exposure to large-scale commercially focused work.
More recently his emphasis has been on complicated property law cases, including rights of way, adverse possession, mortgage fraud and a variety of other cases which loosely fall under the real estate umbrella.
Adam is regularly instructed in complicated matters which raise difficult or esoteric points of law. He has won numerous hotly contested trials in challenging cases involving a combination of detailed facts, significant cross-examination and nuanced legal argument. His notable cases include acting in a week-long trial in a farming matter which raised both property and agricultural law issues, appearing in the Court of Appeal in the very well-known proprietary estoppel case of Davies v Davies, winning on appeal in the High Court, winning a multi-day surveyor’s negligence claim with potentially national significance, and success in the FTT on a technical right of way point. He has also published articles and case notes for a variety of sources including LexisNexis and the Law Society’s Private Client magazine.
In addition, Adam is an experienced and successful mediator having trained with the London School of Mediation nearly a decade ago and having worked pro bono as a mediator for a charity for a number of years at the beginning of his mediation practice. He now offers his mediation services both in person and remotely.
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
- Property Bar Association
- Western Circuit
Education
- MA (Cantab) Cambridge University (Philosophy)
- Graduate Diploma in Law (Distinction)
- Bar Professional Training Course (Outstanding)
- Buchanan Prize
- New Court Chambers Prize
- Lord Denning Scholarship
- Lord Brougham Scholarship
- Hardwicke Entrance Award
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Chancery, probate, and tax
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Adam Boyle – St John’s Chambers ‘His advice is always reliable, well-reasoned, and he quickly gets to the nub of any issue. He is also one of the best advocates around, his delivery is calm and concise and he effortlessly extracts vital concessions from both the expert and the lay witness.’
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 2Adam Boyle – St John’s Chambers ‘Adam is a confident advocate and his skills far exceed his year of call, putting him on a par with those more senior than him and way above his peers of similar call and experience.’
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.