Max Thorowgood

Max Thorowgood works for a wide range of clients in all areas of property related litigation including:

• Real property
• Land registration including proceedings before the First Tier Tribunal Land Registry Division
• Rights of way and boundary disputes
• Easements
• Adverse possession
• Restrictive covenants
• Claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (“TLATA/ToLATA”)
• Property related professional negligence claims involving solicitors and surveyors
• Landlord and Tenant (commercial and residential)
• Leasehold enfranchisement and Right to Manage
• Service charge disputes
• Cases concerning Mobile Homes Act 1983
• Matters relating to the Inclosure Acts
• Public Rights of Way – Highways, Restricted Byways

Max has appeared in the Court of Appeal, the High Court, County Courts, the First Tier Tribunal Land Registry Division, the Upper Tribunal (Land Chamber) and the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal.

Call: 1995

Max  sits as a Judge of both the Land Registration and the Residential Property Divisions of First-Tier Tribunal, Property Chamber.

He sat as a Deputy Adjudicator to Her Majesty’s Land Registry from 2008.

Notable cases:

• White and another v Amirtharaja and another [2022] EWCA Civ 11
• Amirtharaja and another v White and another and [2021] EWHC 330 (Ch)
• Bakrania, and Bakrania v Lloyds Bank PLC, Petros and Eleni Souris [2017] UKFTT 364 (PC) – Discussed in E.F.T.B. 2017, 82, 7-16 and “Fraud, rectification and land registration: a choice by Martin Dixon” Conv. 2017, 3, 161-165
• Gro Kristina Bennett (2) Simone Dominique Bennett v Wayne Andrew Bennett EWLandRA 2013-0823 [2015]
• Close Brothers Ltd v Ridsdale & Ors [2012] EWHC 3090 (QB)
• Gordon v Mitchell [2007] EWHC 1854 (Ch). – ( Gillett v Holt  estoppel)
• Sleebush v Gordon – [2005] EWHC 3447 (Ch), [2004] All ER (D) 148 (Sep) Ch D. Proprietary estoppel
• Meddick v Shiplake Parish Council – Claim to enforce the provisions of an award under Inclosure Act 1845
• Bassett Road Housing Association v Gough CLY 1998 3653 – Right of beneficial joint tenant to seek relief from forfeiture

• ChBA
• Property Bar Association (committee member 2019-2020)