Mark Dencer

  • Practice Groups
  • Property
  • Personal Injury
  • Career

  • 1978 Called to the Bar

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Profile

Mark Dencer is Counsel of choice for a variety of London and provincial solicitors seeking practicality and robustness.  During his career he has been involved in numerous reported decisions in his chosen specialist areas of the law: property, personal injury and professional negligence.

He acts as a matter of deliberate policy for both sides in any particular field, thus landlords as well as tenants, vendors as well as purchasers, other professionals as well as their victims and generally Claimants as well as Defendants on a 50/50 split.

Experience

  • Advisory and advocacy work for largest private landlord plc in UK
  • Counsel of choice for majority of legal aid solicitor-users of West London, Central London and Willesden County Courts
  • Advisory and advocacy work for various housing associations
  • Litigation relating to all aspects of real property disputes, mortgages and trusts
  • Advisory and advocacy work in conditional fee claims in personal injury actions

Significant cases

O’Brien v Seagrave [2007] 1 WLR 2002

Coaten v PBS [2007] 1 P&CR 28

Sanctuary HA v Baker [1998] HLR 809

Sanctuary HA v Baker [No. 2] [1999] HLR 746

Brickfield v Hughes [1988] 24 EG 95

Norman v Otter [1989] AC 129

Estavest v Sachak [1988] 2 EGLR 91

FHA v Jones [1990] 1 All ER 385

Wren v UK Waste Control [1993] 1 RLR 425

McGrath v Wells [1995] 2 FLR 114

NHHT v Etoria [1989] CLY 1912

Mohanaei v Mohanaei [2007] 3 All ER 633

Secretary of State v Sumner [2000] EWCA 748

Nutting v Baldwin [1995] 2 All ER 321

Qualifications

LLB (London)