Gwyneth Heritage acted for Hollins Murray Group in their acquisition of the 12,000 sq ft Winstanley Shopping Centre in Wigan, with tenants including the Co-operative and Boots. HMG acquired the asset for an undisclosed sum using cash resources. Winstanley joins the Gerard Centre, Wigan and West Heath Shopping Centre, Congleton in HMG's portfolio.
Land Law acted for Silver Street Holdings which has completed the sale of 1 Yates Street in Oldham to the Oldham Unit of the Sea Cadets. The Sea Cadets have relocated from their former Derker Annex premises, which have been the subject of a CPO by Oldham Council as part of the Government's controversial pathfinder housing scheme. The transaction also involved a restructure of Silver Street Holdings' head lease of the building with landlord Oldham Council to pave the way for the Sea Cadet's use of the Property.
On Saturday 26 November Andrew Stone of Land Law competed in 'Dancing Strictly', a charity dance event based on Strictly Come Dancing. Andrew, an experienced dancer, competed with a novice partner against 9 other couples to raise money for various local charities, including the Christie Charitable Fund. Andrew and his partner won the event, which raised over £20,000.
Nicholas Illyr Pride has joined Land Law LLP having previously worked for DLA Piper in Sheffield and specialises in property litigation. He has extensive experience of all aspects of property litigation including landlord and tenant issues, acquisition and disposal advice, site assembly projects, development work and property management. Illyr has acted for a wide range of clients such as PLCs, property investors, housebuilders, developers, portfolio managers, landlords and tenants.
Land Law LLP has retained its position as a leading real estate firm in the 2012 Edition of the Chambers and Partners guide to the legal profession. Managing Partner Angus Whyte is a top-ranked practitioner and there is also a new entry for partner Helen Davidson.
Jen is a property litigation lawyer with a wide ranging practice covering all aspects of property litigation including advising on debt recovery, landlord and tenant disputes, dilapidations, lease renewals, adverse possession, trespass, easement and restrictive covenants and professional negligence issues.
Jen has particular expertise in relation to:
- service charge disputes where she has acted for a number of landlord and tenant clients in significant service charge disputes in particular in advising on issues of renewal and repair and sinking fund provisions;
- dilapidations cases where Jen has advised both landlords and tenants in relation to specific dilapidation covenants and she also regularly gives tactical advice on approach to contractual term end;
- adverse possession where Jen regularly advises clients as to the procedures and prospects of success for both claiming and opposing adverse possession applications;
- professional negligence claims where Jen has acted on a number of complex and high value professional negligence claims against other professionals in relation to property disputes.
Jen acts for a wide range of clients from institutional landlords to individual commercial tenants. She also has active practice acting for high net worth individuals.
Recently Jen has been involved in a substantial and high profile service charge dispute with an insolvent landlord and defended injunctive proceedings on a proposed amended use of an easement.
Jen is a member of the Property Litigation Association and a member of the Association of Women Solicitors.
Before joining Land Law in April 2008 Jen worked at Beachcroft LLP in Manchester, after training at DLA Piper in Sheffield.
Prior to becoming a lawyer Jen worked for Asda for several years in a variety of roles including project management and retail operations.
Jen can be contacted at: jmorris@land-law.co.uk