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John Sharples
Work Department
Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Court of Protection, Highways & Rights of Way, Mediation, Professional Negligence, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts
Career
Attorney at law, New York State 1989-1991; called 1992.
John is a very experienced adviser and advocate in real estate- and chancery litigation, an area in which he has specialised for over 25 years.
John is ranked in Band 1 for real estate litigation and chancery in Chambers UK and is one of Legal 500’s leading individuals. Chambers UK describe him as “An exceptional barrister both in terms of his judgment and his people skills and as good as any senior junior in the country.” and brilliant at property problems.”
He is the author of Land Licences (Jordans Publishing 2011), for which Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury wrote the foreword. John has a First Class degree in law from Oxford University and Masters degrees from Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to the Bar he worked as an Attorney in a Wall Street law firm, where he was involved in major international commercial litigation.
He has a wide ranging, litigation-based practice covering all aspects of real estate especially sales of land, easements, restrictive covenants, options/rights of pre-emption, overages, land registration, boundaries and adverse possession), commercial-agricultural-and residential landlord and tenant, and associated professional negligence. He is also a qualified mediator.
Memberships
- Member of Chancery Bar Association
- Member of the Agricultural Law Association
- Secretary of the Western Chancery & Commercial Bar Association
Education
- BA (Oxon) 1st Class 1986
- LLM (Cantab) 1987
- LLM (University of Pennsylvania) 1988
- Thouron Scholar (University of Pennsylvania) 1987-8
- Attorney-at-Law New York State 1991
- Queen Mother’s Scholar 1992
- Sachs Prize & Campbell-Foster Prize 1993 (all Middle Temple)
Lawyer Rankings
Regional Bar > Western Circuit > Property and construction
(Leading Juniors)Ranked: Tier 1John Sharples – St John’s Chambers ‘John is the absolute best in the business, top of his game and the safest pair of hands for a complex property dispute.’
St John’s Chambers has ‘a strong team of barristers specialising in property work with a wide range of experience’. The team provides a strong offering across the full range of property matters, including landlord and tenant work, development disputes, easement and boundary disputes. Charles Auld, who is considered as ‘a safe pair of hands’, recently acted for the defendant in Bristol City Council v Knapp, in which the city council sent an application to ban a landlord under section 16 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016. Christopher Jones is heavily involved in proprietary estoppel claims involving substantial farms, easement and land ownership disputes. ‘An effective advocate’, John Sharples is ‘second-to-none when it comes to land disputes’ and was involved in Kitt v Jones, an easement matter concerning a vehicular right of way over one mixed livestock farming land of the servient owner.