Mishcon de Reya LLP

Property Litigation

Joanna is a Partner in the firm's Property Litigation group, within the Real Estate department. She has over 20 years' experience specialising in property disputes and risk analysis, advisory and avoidance work.

She advises owners, occupiers, developers and funders of commercial and residential real estate, dealing with all contentious aspects of real estate including development disputes, landlord and tenant disputes (including rent and service charge recovery, lease renewals, consents, forfeiture and possession claims), title, right of way and right to light disputes, real estate related professional negligence claims, and insolvency and corporate recovery work. 

In 2020, Joanna was appointed by the Lord Chief Justice as a Deputy Master of the Chancery Division. She will sit on a part-time basis at the Rolls Building, hearing cases in the Business and Property Courts.

Qualified at Portner & Jaskel; Assistant Solicitor Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP; Partner Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP; Partner Mishcon de Reya

A past chair of the Property Litigation Associate, she also chaired its Training & Education Committee for a number of years. During this time she was instrumental in the formal adoption of the Dilapidations Protocol into the Civil Procedure Rules.

Joanna is a Solicitor-Advocate and is qualified to represent clients as an advocate in the Higher Courts (Civil) in England and Wales.

She delivered a paper as part of the 41st annual series of the pre-eminent Blundell Lectures (2016) entitled "Can I Really Rely on the Register of Title?" on the subject of retrospective rectification of the Land Register.

Publications: 

41st Annual Series Blundell Lecture: Can I Really Rely on the Register of Title, June 2016 The Fine Art of Not Disturbing Tenants, Estates Gazette, 11 June 2016

College of Law, Common Professional Exams, Legal Practice Course (commendation)University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Management Sciences