Position

Clive’s practice is concentrated on the following areas: Property: freehold property; residential and commercial leases; property-related professional negligence; trusts.Probate & Inheritance: contentious probate and Inheritance Act claimsFamily: financial remedy claims; schedule 1 of the Children Act; financial disputes between former cohabitants.Significant reported cases: Brighton & Hove City Council v Audus [2009] EWHC 340 (Ch); mortgages; clog on the equity of redemption; proprietary estoppel; Central Bedfordshire Council v Taylor and others [2009] EWCA Civ 613; possession; trespassers; human rights; Garbutt v Edwards [2005] EWCA Civ 1206; costs (in relation to a boundary dispute); indemnity principle.

Education

Elizabeth College, Guernsey; Simi Valley High School, California; Reading Universtity (LLB); Inns of Court School of Law (bar finals).