Brian Kilcoyne

Practice Areas

Partner and Head of Real Estate specialising in all areas of real estate litigation: landlord and tenant (commercial and residential), contract and conveyance (including options and overage), development/neighbour disputes (easements, restrictive covenants, rights of light, party walls, nuisance/trespass, boundaries), property finance/valuation/insolvency, specialist statutory regimes (including telecoms/EC Code) and professional negligence. Reported cases: Re Vedmay Ltd (disclaimer); Virgin Group Ltd v de Morgan plc (professional negligence); Baron Dynevor v Richardson (profits a prendre); R v Environment Agency ex p Dockgrange Ltd (waste management); R v ITC ex p Flextech plc (judicial review); Morells v Oxford United Football Club (restrictive covenants); Montalto Monella vPizza Express (rent review); Dunster Properties Ltd v First Secretary of State (planning), McGuckian and others Lands Tribunal (collective enfranchisement), Blom-Cooper and others v Social Security Commissioners (housing benefit), Bond v Dunster Properties Ltd (JV/partnership dispute), Sackville Property Developments Ltd v Stanhope plc (JV/shareholder dispute).

Career

BA (Oxon) Jurisprudence

Qualified 1992; Joined Lewis Silkin 1999, Partner 2000 and Head of Property 2019.

Professional Memberships

Property Litigation Association, NARA, London Litigation Association and former Steering Committee Member of the RICS Dilapidations Forum.

Publications

Co-editor of EMISS bi-monthly publication on commercial property for 10 years and contributor to New Law Journal.

Personal

Born 1967; resides Kent.