About
Helena also has experience in dealing with contentious agricultural property issues, including the succession and termination of Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies and disputes relating to farm business tenancies.
Helena regularly advises on land registration issues (including rectification and boundary determination), and on a range of third party and adverse interests in land such as easements, restrictive covenants and boundary disputes. Helena has experience advising in the context of strategic land, including regaining possession for prospective developments.
She also advises on a range of commercial landlord and tenant disputes, including opposed or unopposed lease renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, arrears recovery, break options, dilapidations and breach of covenant disputes.
Helena’s client base includes large corporations, developers, commercial and residential landlords and tenants, large landowners of estates, charities and high net worth individuals.
Helena is a member of the Property Litigation Association.
Experience
- Assisting owners of a residential investment property to regain possession and obtain money judgments for arrears owed by its tenants, including advising on options to enforce judgments (such as by way of charging orders), and successfully recovering judgment debts in full.
- Regularly assisting a large urban estate in recovering service charge and ground rent arrears from long leasehold tenants by way of forfeiture action, including issuing proceedings in the Civil National Business Centre and the County Court at Central London.
- Assisted in a three-day hearing in the First-Tier Tribunal for a succession tenancy on death under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
- Acted for a large landed estate as part of a restructuring exercise in serving over 30 notices to quit to terminate written and unwritten farm business tenancies under the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.
- Advising in relation to potential injunction proceedings for a commercial landowner in relation to infringements to rights of light and rights of way by a neighbouring development, and successfully negotiating a substantial settlement.
