Providing an ‘invaluable service to practitioners’, New Square Chambers contains experienced barristers in public inquiry, judicial review and statutory appeals contexts. Members regularly act in cases concerning public rights over land, village greens, highways and statutory nuisance. Well-versed in definitive map order modification orders, George Laurence KC acted in one such case examining where a surveying authority may refuse to make an order despite a conflict of fact between a landowner and applicant. In Cotham School v Bristol City Council, Paul Wilmshurst acted for the council in this case which clarified the law on the application to deregister land as a village green.
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Paul Wilmshurst is ranked by the Legal 500 as a leading junior in Property Litigation and Agriculture and by Chambers and Partners as a leading individual in Agriculture and Rural Affairs. His practice embraces all aspects of land law.
Paul deals with the full range of property litigation between individuals and businesses. For example: easements, boundary disputes, commercial landlord and tenant, agricultural tenancies, disputes over ownership, proprietary estoppel, trusts of land, unjust enrichment, manorial rights, profits à prendre, covenants and nuisance. He is an experienced trial advocate. Recent cases include appearing in a 5-day trial in High Court (Chancery Division): Stanning v Baldwin [2019] EWHC 1350 (Ch); [2019] 5 WLUK 544.
Secondly, Paul is particularly active and well-known for acting in cases which concern public rights over land or which have administrative law aspects. For example, town/village greens, commons, public rights of way, public open space, foreshore rights, and environmental cases. Paul is the author of the Village Green and Commons chapters of the Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents. He is a very experienced public inquiry advocate and has appeared in notable court proceedings.
Career
Called 2007
Memberships
Middle Temple; Lincoln's Inn
Education
Durham University
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