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Litigation and dispute resolution
Jonathan specialises in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on landlord and tenant and property dispute resolution.
He has a long and successful track record of working with owners, occupiers, managing agents and property professionals in disputes involving commercial property, including the contentious aspects of lease renewals under Part 2 Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
Jonathan also advises extensively in relation to contract, insolvency and other business-related disputes.
Mediation
Jonathan is a trained mediator and has many years experience of representing clients in the mediation process. He has also written for the Estates Gazette and the Law Society Gazette.
• Acting for a landlord in the challenge of its tenant’s exercise of a break clause and its claim for substantial dilapidations
• Acting for a tenant of commercial property in successfully defeating its landlord’s claim for the cost of works undertaken by the landlord re-entering the property under a Jervis v Harris clause.
• Acting for mortgagees in relation to the enforcement of remedies involving a 92 property “buy to let” portfolio
• Acting for shareholders in resisting a claim for €1.75m arising from the purchase of a property portfolio (settled through mediation)
• Preparing a claim to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal for the variation of 364 Leases of residential property
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