Gemma Tolmie

Gemma advises both landlords and tenants, with a particular focus on large commercial development companies, businesses, charities, colleges and retail clients.

Her work includes Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 renewals and terminations, interim rent, dilapidations and settlement, lease termination by way of break option, tenant arrears and insolvency including drafting and service of statutory demands, Torts and Interference with Goods Act issues, forfeiture, dealings with tenancies at will and other breaches of covenant.

Gemma also advises and assists individuals in relation to their property portfolios, adverse possession claims (both for and against), enforcement of easements and restrictive covenants, boundary disputes and determination, rights of way and access, and other neighbour disputes.

Examples of Gemma’s work include:

• Advising and assisting individual clients with enforcement of easements and rights of way.
• Advising and assisting a commercial client in respect of a long-standing tenant issue within their portfolio
• Advising a commercial client in relation to tenant arrears and their options, serving a statutory demand and advising in respect of forfeiture by way of peaceable re-entry and dealings with goods in the premises thereafter.
• Assisting with the consideration of dilapidations for both individual and commercial clients.
• Drafting and service of break notices for commercial clients with advice on preconditions and reinstatement and repair obligations.