Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
Partner in the firm’s real estate litigation team, specialising in disputes affecting commercial and residential property.
Fielding a ‘dynamic, hard-working and insightful’ real estate litigation team, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP specialises in handling the gamut of property disputes, from complex dilapidation claims to restrictive covenant issues. The firm has experience acting for clients in property disputes up to the Court of Appeal and High Court, with the ’superb’ John Morrison providing vast expertise in commercial and residential landlord disputes. Associate Amy Evans is regularly acts on cases concerning easements and right to light. The team is based in Oxford.
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‘The firm has an outstanding range of expertise together with a significant depth of available resources. In particular there is an ease of communication and ability to establish effective personal working relationships. The range of expertise has proved invaluable in identifying and covering new related issues.’
‘The property litigation team are a dynamic, hard-working and insightful team that provide real value to each instruction through a broad knowledgebase and a keen understanding of our business and what we want to achieve in any given scenario. Response times and communication is exceptional across the team and I truly feel valued as a client.’
- 'I've worked on instructions with both John Morrison and Amy Evans for several years and they both consistently provide a service beyond expectation. Both are very keen to understand what we want to achieve and take the time to understand the role of any given instruction and how this plays into the bigger picture of our business.'
- 'Their knowledge, communication, advice and turnaround times provide me with confidence as a client.’
‘John Morrison is a superb litigator and a great team player - every case I have worked on with him has been superbly prepared.’
‘John Morrison is a supremely capable property litigator. Like clients - and unlike some opponents - he sees litigation as a means to an end and works hard to bring cases to a businesslike conclusion. He is just the solicitor to go to if you are a landowner in a tight spot.’
‘John Morrison is fantastic, and Amy Evans is brilliantly commercial and hugely popular with clients.'
‘Amy Evans is our main contact. Amy is responsive and is happy to answer the smallest enquiries. Nothing is too much trouble for her.’
Key clients
- Flight Centre (UK) Limited
- White Stuff Limited
- Pinnacle Group Limited
- East Tower Apartments Limited
- Fortitudo Limited
- Thatcham Research
- Patrizia Hanover Property Unit Trust
- 23.5 Degrees Limited
- Selco Trade Centres Limited
- Merchant Seamans War Memorial Society t/a Care Ashore
Work highlights
- Represented East Tower Apartments throughout long-running litigation with its landlord regarding the reasonableness of utility charges, applications for consent to assign and the recoverability of landlord’s costs at No 1 West India Quay.
- Acted for a private client and defeated her neighbour’s claim for a prescriptive easement.
- Acted for AT & DR Property Investment Partnership in a dilapidation dispute with a high street clothing retailer in which the primary issue was whether a lease clause providing that the landlord’s loss is a debt and not damages was valid.
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John Morrison