Mark Brassey

Partner - Dispute Resolution

About Mark

Mark is Head of Dispute Resolution and has over 25 years’ experience and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of commercial and residential property and planning litigation work. He has worked with High Net Worth Individuals and clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including retail, leisure and charities.

Mark is a Member of the Property Litigation Association, The Law Society and an Advisor to the Institute of Directors.

Mark is author of articles in various property and legal journals including Solicitors Journal, Estates Gazette and RICS Property Journal.

Mark’s expertise and how he can help you

Mark has a broad practice covering commercial and residential property disputes including:

• Advising national and international landlords and tenants in relation to contested and uncontested business lease renewals.
• Complex property fraud cases.
• Dealing with professional negligence claims.
• Forfeiture and possession claims.
• Squatters.
• Adverse possession claims.
• Resolving party wall disputes.
• Dilapidations claims.
• Injunctions.
• Offering planning advice and handling appeals.
• Resolving disputes arising from auctions.

Recent Experience

• Acting for a client operating a franchised restaurant, in a professional negligence claim against their former solicitors who failed to serve a break notice. The solicitors admitted liability and the claim was settled with substantial damages and costs recovery.
• Acting for clients against a well-known high street building society. The building society had refused to provide a redemption statement to allow our clients to complete the sale of a residential property. We were successful in applying for and obtaining an injunction in the High Court requiring the building society to provide the redemption statement by midday on the following day. The matter was thereafter successfully resolved.
• Acting for a landlord against a well-known high street retailer in a business lease renewal. The claim began as an opposed lease renewal but was settled with the grant of a new lease to the retailer on favourable terms to our client.
• Acting for a restaurant operator against their previous solicitors in a professional negligence claim. The former solicitors failed to serve a valid break notice. The solicitors admitted liability and the claim was settled with substantial damages and costs recovery.
• Advising a property client who had purchased a residential property and was threatened with a planning enforcement notice and possible criminal prosecution.
• Acting for a client in a successful planning appeal against the decision of East Cambridgeshire District Council for the erection of 19 affordable homes with associated access, parking and landscaping.
• Acting for a client in a successful planning appeal against the decision of Mid Sussex District Council for the construction of a new chapel building with associated landscaping within an existing burial ground.
• Acting for a client who was victim of a complex fraud, in a series of successful applications for a worldwide freezing order and proprietary injunction; a passport order and bench warrant; an order for cross examination and default judgment; securing a significant settlement from the Land Registry and defending and defeating an application by the defendant to set aside all previous orders. Thereafter succeeding in a confidential settlement against the solicitors that acted in the transfer of the property relating to the original fraud.