Andrew Williams

Practice Areas

Andrew has a very specialised property litigation practice. He rarely accepts instructions outside that discipline. Accordingly he has extensive experience of almost every aspect of real estate litigation.

He has appeared in courts and tribunals at all levels all the way up to the House of Lords/ Supreme Court.

As a former university lecturer in land law and with over 25 years’ experience at the chancery bar, he is generally involved in complex and/or high-value property litigation. He has appeared in numerous reported decisions and his articles on property law topics have been published extensively, mainly in specialist journals.

In the last 2 years he has appeared in the following reported cases: Daniel Adams v Thomas Jones [2021] 1 P&CR DG22 (agricultural holdings), Dowse v Bradford MBC [2021] 1 P&CR 8 (adverse possession), Re: Cwmni Rheoli Pentref Marina Conwy Cyfynedig [2021] EWHC 1275 (Ch) (restrictive covenants), Anaghara v Anaghara [2021] P&CR DG16 (proprietary estoppel) and is due to appear in the Court of Appeal in Spring 2024.

Andrew’s practice includes:

• Commercial & residential Landlord and Tenant

• Proprietary estoppel, adverse possession, restrictive covenants, sale of land

• Solicitors negligence claims arising out of property transactions

• Boundary disputes, easements, beneficial interest disputes, possession claims

• Land development disputes

• Real estate litigation of all types

Career

Gray’s Inn entrance scholar: 1993; Year of call: 1994; Pupillage at 11 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn: 1994-95; University lecturer in land law: 1995 to 1996; Career at the chancery bar: 1996 to date.