Fenners Property Practice Group

Fenners’ Property Practice Group offers specialist expertise across a range of commercial and private property matters. We look to balance the rigour needed to understand the law with a healthy dose of pragmatism and common-sense. We recognise that clients want practical answers to their concerns, whether they are developers marketing a site, neighbours in dispute, landlords burdened with a defaulting tenant or tenants faced with an unreasonable landlord.

The ability of our Property Practice Group is reflected in the legal directories: The Legal 500 recommends as many property lawyers from Fenners as all other chambers on the South Eastern circuit added together. Based in the heart of East Anglia much of our work is focused on rural law: Bruce Monnington and Andrew Gore are the only agricultural law specialists identified by Chambers’ Directory in the south or east of England.

Whilst much of our work is advisory we appear in the courts at all levels, as well as all property tribunals, and are happy to conduct site visits in order to provide advice.

What we do

Freehold property:
  • Drafting and interpretation of documents
  • Sales of property, including enforcement of agreements
  • Issues relating to title
  • Land registration
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Options
  • Mortgages and mortgage possession claims
  • Rights of way and other incorporeal rights
  • Adverse possession
  • Trespasses and nuisances
  • Boundary disputes
  • Common land and town and village greens
  • Property rights in marine and inland waters
Leasehold property:
  • Commercial leases
  • Agricultural holdings & farm business tenancies
  • Assured & shorthold tenancies
  • Council and housing association tenancies
  • Rent Act tenancies
  • Long residential leases
  • Leasehold enfranchisement & management
  • Service charges
  • Commonhold
  • Tied houses
Trusts:
  • Express trusts
  • Informal trusts & estoppels
  • TOLATA claims
  • Clubs & unincorporated associations
  • Charities
  • Pensions

Listing of barristers within our Property Practice Group

Andrew Gore

Andrew Gore

Year of Call: 1973

Martin Collier

Martin Collier

Year of Call: 1982

Alasdair Wilson

Alasdair Wilson

Year of Call: 1988

Clive Pithers

Clive Pithers

Year of Call: 1989

Bruce Monnington

Bruce Monnington

Year of Call: 1989

Anthony Tanney

Anthony Tanney

Year of Call: 1994

Duncan Macpherson

Duncan Macpherson

Year of Call: 1994

Caroline Allison

Caroline Allison

Year of Call: 2002

Charles Snelling

Charles Snelling

Year of Call: 2005

Elizabeth White

Elizabeth White

Year of Call: 2006

Liam Varnam

Liam Varnam

Year of Call: 2007

Iain Bain

Iain Bain

Year of Call: 2007

Davide Corbino

Davide Corbino

Year of Call: 2012

Clare Gould

Clare Gould

Year of Call: 2014

Anne Hogarth

Anne Hogarth

Year of Call: 2018

Oliver Fuller

Oliver Fuller

Year of Call: 2018

Nick Mason‑Williams

Nick Mason‑Williams

Year of Call: 2021

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