Ian Partridge practises principally in commercial and chancery/property work.

Commercial

Contract (commercial) with particular emphasis on sale of goods and contracts of surety. Commercial chancery work, such as:

• Partnerships and joint ventures,
• Accounts and inquiries,
• Breach of directors' duties,
• Contracts of surety.

Chancery and property

Chancery and property work includes:

• Real property disputes, including boundaries, easements, restrictive covenants, sales and trusts of land and landlord and tenant (both commercial and residential).
• Contentious probate, interpretation of wills, administration of estates, Inheritance Act claims.
• Interpretation of trust instruments, administration of wills trusts and life-time trusts, breach of trustees' duties and accessory liability for breach of trust.
• Implied, constructive and resulting trusts.
• Drafting of wills, trusts and deeds of variation.

He also has a basic working knowledge of the tax provisions impacting on the above.

He also undertakes general chancery and professional (especially legal) negligence work. Ian is known for the intellectual rigour he brings to bear on the most complex legal problems. His instructions frequently have a private international law aspect.

Reported cases include:

Aston Cantlow PCC v Wallbank [2003] 3 WLR 283 (HL) and [2002] Ch 51 (CA) — chancel repairs and the Human Rights Act

General Guarantee Corporation Ltd v East Anglian Finance LTL 25/6/99 (CA) — sale of goods/trespass to goods

R v Sheffield HBRB (1994) 28 HLR 36 (QB) — Housing Benefit and trusts of land

Bratton Seymour Services Ltd v Oxborough [1992] BCLC 693 (CA) — company law/landlord and tenant