Details of some of our recent cases:

Success in Mortgage Recovery Success
Andrew Brookes acted for Cascabel who loaned Vedalease £600,000 to buy a freehold property. Vedalease signed a deed of trust to give a 25% share of the property to A, the company that had introduced them to Cascabel. Vedalease subsequently disputed the validity of the deed...

Claim against school struck out
We succeeded in obtaining an order from the court striking out a claim brought against a local school by a building company claiming payment for very substantial building works....

Client's interest in property secured and sale ordered
Our client owned half an investment property purchased in the 1960s, which had since become extremely valuable. The Court ordered that the property should be sold....

Million pounds recovered from property joint venture dispute
Three long-standing friends entered into a series of property development joint ventures. Our client did so through a limited company vehicle. The other two acted through three partnerships. On our client's death, he had over £1 million invested in the joint venture....

Other recent cases include:

• Acting on the termination of a business lease on the grounds of redevelopment
• Advising on disruption to a business caused by the landlord carrying out works to the buildings
• Advising housing associations and housing co-operatives on all aspects of property management including disrepair, possession, redevelopment and contractual disputes
• Acting for leaseholders who wanted to purchase their freehold but the freeholder was untraceable. We helped them apply to the Court and to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal. The Court confirmed our clients' entitlement to purchase the freehold and accepted our proposal to deduct the cost of the proceedings from the purchase price, saving our clients over £5,000.
• Acting for lessees of blocks of flats whose landlord sought to overcharge for unnecessary repair works, without giving proper opportunity for consultation. We compromised the action on terms that the freehold was transferred from the landlord to a company set up and controlled by the lessees.