Property & Chancery

Michael Tomlinson is regularly instructed to advise and act in a range of work that is encompassed within the Property and Chancery Group.

In particular, Michael works in the following areas:

• Residential Landlord & Tenant
• Commercial Landlord & Tenant
• Mortgages
• Trespass to land
• Adverse Possession
• Restrictive Covenants
• Trusts of Land
• Easements & Profits
• Nuisance
• The Rule in Rylands v Fletcher

Michael’s Landlord & Tenant work includes representing local authorities, social housing landlords and individuals in a range of cases, from straightforward possession hearings and applications for forfeiture to succession claims and applications for anti-social behaviour injunctions.

Michael is an associate member of the Property Bar Association.

Recent Major Cases

Boyland & Son Limited v Persons Unknown [2006] EWCA Civ 1860, [2007] HLR 369, Times January 18, 2007 – in the Court of Appeal: successfully resisting an application to appeal in a case involving gypsies as trespassers to land.