Property Newsletter: October 2022

• Published date: 27 October 2022
• Subject Matter: Real Estate and Construction, Construction & Planning, Real Estate
• Law Firm: Gatehouse Chambers
• Author: Mr James Duncan-Hartill, Patrick Sarson, Claire Gallacher and Zina Avili

Introduction

Welcome back after the summer break, and what a summer it was! We had to contend with the ups and downs of Westminster politics, energy costs and the sad passing of Queen Elizabeth II but at least we got some warm and sunny weather for once. What a distant memory that is! We hope you managed to get a break and wonder whether you also feel like Michaelmas term is back with a bang?

We would like to welcome Clare Anslow back after her maternity leave and congratulate Thomas Mitty on tenancy after successful completion of his pupillage. We're also welcoming Victoria Dacie-Lombardo and Philip Marriott who are starting their pupillages with us - we'll let you know once they're on their feet and open for bookings!

We recently had the chance to celebrate Jamal Demachkie winning Property and Housing Junior of the Year at the Legal 500 Bar Awards! Well done to Jamal for winning this award not once, but twice! Click here for a video from the evening and to see how Jamal, James Duncan-Hartill and Patrick Sarson celebrated.

Without further ado, welcome to the "under-construction" Michaelmas term newsletter from me, Laura Tweedy, the new editor, and the whole team here at Gatehouse Chambers. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Carl Brewin for his excellent editorship of our newsletter over the past three years. I have some big shoes to fill but will try my best to bring you a legally relevant and, hopefully, interesting, newsletter each month. I didn't want to totally copy Carl's style, despite the general encouragement for barristers to plagiarise, so to that end we are making some changes to the content and we would like your help. Do you have anything you'd like us to tell you about each month? Is there anything you don't really want to see, or anything you really do? Please get in touch with me and let me know (laura.tweedy@gatehouselaw.co.uk).

Laura Tweedy - Editor

Activity report - what have our team been up to?

James Hall has been dealing with multiple claims for secured lenders against monitoring surveyors on developments, and has had three mediations in fairly quick succession - including two in person, which was a nice return to some sort of normality. Also, he helped another lender to successfully persuade the Land Registry to exercise its apparently little-used power under r114 LRR 2003 to 'accept and act upon any other proof of satisfaction of a charge that [it] may regard as sufficient' in a case involving applicable law in...