The 3 Hare Court property litigation team regularly advise and appear in court on a broad range of commercial and residential property work including lease renewals, rent reviews, dilapidations and disrepair, service charge disputes, right to manage claims, and all varieties of actions for possession.

The team also has considerable experience of freehold enfranchisement and lease extension claims under the 1967 and 1993 Acts and also deals with land law issues, such as adverse possession, and restrictive and positive covenants.

The property litigation team’s expertise in these areas is not limited to the United Kingdom, and members have recently advised in cases from St Lucia, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Gibraltar and elsewhere.

Our Property Litigation expertise includes:

Members are highly recognised by The Legal 500 2026 UK Bar Guides for their expertise and market recognition in Property Litigation:

Details of cases in which our members have acted, or are acting, are set out in each barrister’s profile. Notable cases include:

A long-running dispute concerning title to property in Nassau, Bahamas. Succeeded in persuading the Privy Council to reverse the decisions of the courts at first instance and on appeal to the Court of Appeal, which had been to the effect that due to the fraudulent concealment exception the claimant’s claims were not time-barred. . Read the Judgment here.

The case concerned renewal of a commercial lease pursuant to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, as well as the Defendant’s rights under Article 1 Protocol 1 ECHR. Read the Judgment here.

Court of Appeal hearing which clarified the law as to the interplay between the modern statutory adverse possession regime and the ancient common law principle that possession had to be without permission to qualify as adverse. Read the Judgment here.

Concerning the distinction between improvement and repairs under the Defective Premises Act 1972. Read the Judgment here.

Property barristers

Peter Knox KC

Call: 1983Silk: 2006

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Thomas Roe KC

Call: 1995Silk: 2014

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William Evans

Call: 1977 (England & Wales) 2010 (BVI)

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Pierre Janusz

Call: 1979

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Robert Strang

Call: 2003

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Asela Wijeyaratne

Call: 2008

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Benjamin Channer

Benjamin Channer

Call: 2008

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Stephen Hackett

Stephen Hackett

Call: 2011

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Thomas Horton

Call: 2015

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Emily Moore

Call: 2016

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Adam Riley

Call: 2018

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Katharine Bailey

Call: 2019

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Rory Turnbull

Call: 2021

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Nicholas Leah

Call: 2022

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Tabitha Hutchison

Call: 2022

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Nicole Pearson

Call: 2023

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William Knatchbull

Call: 2024

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Get in touch

Darren Whitbread

Senior Practice Manager

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  +44 (0)20 7415 7807
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Bradly Patterson

Practice Manager

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  +44 (0)20 7415 7911
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Please contact us either by telephone: +44 (0)20 7415 7800 or email: clerks@3harecourt.com

 

  

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