Bio
Kate is a Disputes Partner.
Kate advises commercial and private clients in respect of all litigation matters, specialising in construction, real estate, landlord and tenant, mining and minerals, commercial and contractual, intellectual property, defamation, professional negligence, insolvency and misfeasance, partnership, company law disputes.
Working with businesses and individuals in industries as diverse as sports promotion, property development, agricultural, construction and technology sectors, Kate has particular expertise in managing adjudications, arbitrations, mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
She also works regularly in the High Court in London, Birmingham and Manchester, alongside the county courts, Technology and Construction Courts, First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber), and Agricultural Land and Drainage division.
Examples of Kate’s work include:
- Overseeing a successful claim relating to mineral trespass to ensure that a claim to minerals under an old conveyance were protected.
- Advising on, and successfully defending, an Agricultural Holdings Act Succession claim and obtaining consent to operation of a Case G Notice to quit in the Agricultural Land Tribunal Wales.
- Successfully advising on a high-value claim under the Building Safety Act 2022 (including remediation contribution orders and building liability orders) for fire safety and structural defects against the original developer and its multiple linked companies.
- Successfully bringing an unfair prejudice petition which went to trial at the High Court in London and recovered a six-figure sum for the shareholder.
- Successfully bringing breach of copyright proceedings in a technical case in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court which included preparing a retrospective assignment of the copyright in certain photographs taken of a high-net-worth individual’s home in Alderley Edge.
- Negotiating a £1.3 million settlement for a couple whose home had to be demolished due to serious defects made by a builder that subsequently went into liquidation.