Adrian Carr

  • Practice Groups
  • Business & Commercial
  • Property
  • Career
  • 1999 Called to the Bar

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Profile

Adrian has a broad range of experience in all aspects of landlord and tenant and traditional and modern Chancery practice, covering litigious, advisory and non-contentious work.

He regularly represents clients in the High Court, County Courts, Residential Property Tribunals and before the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry.

He is a member of both the Property and Business & Commercial groups at Tanfield Chambers and also has a specific expertise in Wills and Probate law.

Experience

Property

Residential Landlord and Tenant:

  • Claims for possession
  • Claims for rent arrears
  • Claims for disrepair
  • Enforceability of covenants
  • Injunctions in relation to anti-social behaviour
  • Service charge disputes
  • Applications for leasehold enfranchisement
  • Applications for lease extensions


Commercial Landlord and Tenant:

Adrian acts for both landlords and tenants across a wide range of areas:

  • Claims for forfeiture of leases
  • Opposed and unopposed claims for a new tenancy
  • Enforceability of covenants
  • Guarantees
  • Claims for dilapidations


Real Property:

  • Conveyancing disputes
  • Joint ownership of land
  • Trusts of land (including claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 for and against trustees in bankruptcy)
  • Easements
  • Mortgages
  • Boundary disputes
  • Freehold covenants
  • Disputes before the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry

Business & Commercial

Adrian has general commercial experience in both the County Court and High Court, acting for individuals and companies

Wills, Probate and Administration of Estates

Adrian carries out both advisory and litigious work in the field of wills, probate and administration of estates, including:

  • Non-contentious probate disputes
  • Contentious probate disputes
  • Applications under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
  • Disputes relating to testamentary capacity
  • Disputes arising out of the administration of estates

Significant Cases

McKay v Renlon Ltd [2008] EWHC 533 QB


South East Windscreens Ltd v (1) Hamid Jamshidi and (2) Nasser Ghovanlou Poor QBD (David Foskett QC) [22/12/2005]

Publications

Contributor, Service Charges and Managment: Law & Practice 2nd edition (Sweet & Maxwell)

Contributor, Service Charges and Management: Law and Practice, 1st edition 2006 (Sweet & Maxwell)

Contributor, Atkin’s Court Forms Vol 37; Specific Performance, 2001 (Butterworths)

Memberships


Member, Property Bar Association
Member, Chancery Bar Association

Qualifications

BA Hons (Dunelm)

Dip Law (City)

Kitchener Scholarship (Durham University)

Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship, Inner Temple