Kevin Lee

Practice Areas

Kevin Lee has held “Highly Recommended” status in the legal directors for many years for Real Estate Litigation. He is one the few lawyers who can genuinely claim to be a leading expert in the field of rights of light, and he is an undisputed leading expert in the filed of mines and minerals.

His clients include developers, insurance companies and leading transport and logistics companies.

Career

Qualified 1990.

Partner Marsons 1993-1998

Senior Associate DLA Piper 1998-2002

Partner DLA Piper 2002-2008

Partner and Head of Real Estate Litigation Halliwells 2008-2010

Partner and Head of Real Estate Litigation Hill Dickinson 2010- date.

Professional Memberships

Law Society

Property Litigation Association

Publications

Estates Gazette

Personal

Born 1964

Lives London & Lancashire

Leisure time is spent fitness and weight training, playing golf, Crystal Palace FC and listening to American house music

Clients

Dandara Homes

First Title Insurance

Countrywide

Aviva

Transport for Greater Manchester

Elstree Studios

UK Oil & Gas

Work Highlights

• Successfully defending interim injunction in rights of light claim - Handston Investments V Abri Group [2024] EWHC 3523 (Ch)

• Successfully defending the client in reported high value High Court Litigation Burns V (1) Bridge & (2) Property Funding limited [2024] EWHC 2620 (CH)

• Acting for UK Oil & Gas Plc in ground breaking and heavily contested 5 day High Court anti-protest injunction to protect onshore drilling sites (UKOG -v- Persons Unknown [2018] EWHC 2252 (Ch)).

• Acting for Signature Group in 5 day s.84 LPA 1925 hearing in Upper Tribunal for variation of restrictive covenants to develop care home (Signature of St Albans (Property) Guernsey Ltd -v- Wragg [2019] UKUT 70 (LC) and in previous High Court proceedings for declaratory relief [2018] 2 W.L.R. 943

• Acting for A&P Shipyard and Mersey Docks & Harbour Company in Re Falmouth Dockyard [2017] UKUT 430 (LC) (acting for the owner of a commercial/military shipyard resisting by an application by superyacht boat builder under s.84 LPA 1925 to modify covenants affecting a “wet dock”).

• Acting for Greene King in four day trial concerning dispute over whether a right recorded in the Land Registry register as an easement was in fact an easement (Starham -v- Greene King [2017] 9 WLUK 422) and in 2019 subsequently recovering in excess of £1.2m from Land Registry under the statutory indemnity (one of the highest ever recovered)

• Recovering US $14 million from US tenant in action for specific performance, following arbitration and High Court enforcement proceedings

• Acting for tenant in leading case concerning GRP roof lights (Twinmar Holdings -v- Klarius UK (2013 2 P&CR 6))

• Acting for the developer in Renewal Leeds Limited -v- Lowry Properties Limited (2010) EWHC 2902 on terms implied to give effect to an overage payment

• Successfully representing Downing Group in GMD Developments Ltd -v- Leeds City Council [2006] EWHC 1142 (Ch)

Industry Sector Expertise

Property development

Insurance

Mines and minerals

Transport and logistics

Expert in these Jurisdictions

England and Wales

Languages Spoken

English

Experience

• Kevin has for many years been rated in all the legal directories as a leading lawyer in the field of property litigation He handles a wide range of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution.

• Kevin is one of the few property litigation lawyers who can rightly claim to be an expert in rights of light and mines and minerals claims, regularly being recommended by specialist surveyors to their clients. He also specialises in restrictive covenants and litigation requiring interim remedies. He acts for major national PLC’s, developers, financial institutions, insurance companies and overseas investors.

• Kevin is a member of the Property Litigation Association and Chartered Institute of Housing and has a post graduate management diploma from Manchester Business School.

Education