Richard Evans

I advise leading UK property companies and retailers such as the Freshwater Group, St. Modwen Properties and the Charterhouse Group, as well as tenants, developers and investors. My experience includes acting for clients in disputes involving breach of covenant, rights of light, easements, judicial review, 1954 Act lease renewals, rent reviews, noise nuisance, applications for consent to assign, trespass and real estate disputes with an insolvency aspect.

• Advising long-standing client Freshwater Group of Companies on a wide range of property disputes across their substantial commercial and residential portfolio.
• Advising St. Modwen Properties on a range of day-to-day estate management matters.
• Advising Travis Perkins in a high profile 1954 Act Ground f claim at a site in Hampstead.
• Wood v Waddington [2015] EWCA Civ 538 – obtaining a successful judgment in the Court of Appeal acting for Mr & Mrs Wood, the appellants in a case involving a number of rights of way issues over a neighbour’s land. The case remains one of the leading authorities on Section 62 of the Law of Property Act 1925
• Ikbal v Sterling Law [2013] EWHC 3291 (Ch) – acting for Mr Ikbal in a claim against a firm of solicitors acting on his behalf on the purchase of a property as to whether they were liable for a breach of trust and/or breaches of duty of care, after it failed to recognise that a property purchase was a fraudulent transaction, the result of which being that Mr Ikbal did not obtain legal title.