St John's Chambers

Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Court of Protection, Highways & Rights of Way, Mediation, Professional Negligence, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts

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.

Member of Chancery Bar Association Member of the Agricultural Law Association Secretary of the Western Chancery & Commercial Bar Association

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)