Jonathan McNae

Practice Areas

Jonathan’s practice focuses on all aspects of residential and commercial property, contract and commercial disputes, and professional negligence and tortious liabilities.

Career

Called by Gray’s Inn in 2001. Jonathan was the recipient of the Lord Chief Justice Holt Award 2000. Jonathan was a member of the academic staff of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies before being called to the Bar.

Jonathan’s recent cases include:

Butler v Ward [2025] 4 WLUK 201 (KB) Wasted Costs;

Ellison Road Ltd v Mian [2023] 2 WLUK 428 Service of Proceedings;

Cross v Coach House Mews (Highbury) Ltd [2022] UKUT 20 (LC) Modification of Restrictive Covenants;

Canary Riverside Estate Management Ltd & Ors Coates [2021] EWHC 1505 (Ch) Case Management Appeals;

Traylen v Amiga Homes Ltd [2020] EWHC 1913 (QB) Interim Injunctions – adequacy of damages;

Westfield Homes Ltd & Anor v Keay Homes (Windrush) Ltd [2020] EWHC 3368 (Ch) Specific Performance of contractual obligations;

Gore v Naheed [2018] P&CR 1 (CA) Easements and the “rule in Harris v Flower”.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association

Property Bar Association

London Bar Association

Publications

Past editor, general conveyancing chapter of ‘The Lawyer’s Factbook’ (Sweet & Maxwell); editor’s assistant, ‘Wolstenholme & Cherry’s Annotated Land Registration Act 2002’ (Sweet & Maxwell);

Publications include:

‘Untangling Knotweed’ (2023); ‘Liability – The Director’s Cut’ (Liability of Shadow Directors) – Selborne Chambers’ Newsletter; ‘What’s in a Name – liability and the Phoenix Syndrome’ (‘Solicitors Journal’ 13 May 2005); ‘Handle With Care – squatters and adverse possession’ (‘Estates Gazette’, 22 May 2004).

Personal

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