Property litigation legal advice
Property litigation lawyers
If you are involved in a dispute over property, whether commercial or residential, Irwin Mitchell’s expert property litigation team can help. Our broad range of experience covers all kinds of property disputes and includes advising landlords, tenants, developers, local authorities and other public bodies, giving us an insight into all perspectives. In all of these situations, we have a reputation for taking on, and winning, difficult cases.
Our experience in property litigation
Our specialist property litigation team has considerable experience in all kinds of dispute resolution, and where appropriate, we do all we can to avoid litigation, including conducting mediations. However, we have an enviable reputation for successful legal actions and our litigation expertise is recognised in the Legal 500, which rates the top law firms.
About our property litigation work
We act for a number of well known high street retailers with large property portfolios and for other clients ranging from multi national companies, local authorities and universities to small businesses, often achieving repeat work and ongoing contracts with them. In all cases we draw on the wide variety of resources available to us in dealing with your specific needs, using the expertise available in our debt recovery, property and conveyancing teams where necessary, to tailor a precise, accurate service.
Our main work includes:
- lease renewal proceedings
- rent and service charge recovery (including distraint, court proceedings and insolvency proceedings)
- dilapidations claims and actions relating to other breaches of covenant
- forfeiture actions and applications for relief
- recovery of land or premises from unlawful occupiers/squatters
- lease surrender negotiations
- disputes over consent to assignment/sub-letting/change of use
- disputes with neighbouring occupiers over boundaries/rights of way
- planning and environmental disputes
- leasehold enfranchisement for commercial landlords, for example dealing with residential leaseholders applications to extend a lease, buy the freehold or exercise the right to manage
- residential possession actions/rent recovery for commercial landlords
We use case management systems to ensure the smooth running and careful monitoring of all of our client work.
Funding your case
The team is committed to providing you with the latest funding options and we’re able to consider a variety of arrangements including conditional fees and before and after the event insurance arrangements. We’ll discuss your specific options early on and will do everything we can to assist in choosing the right route for you.
Call us now on 0870 1500 100 to arrange a consultation, or use the links above to drop us a line.