
Ross Crail
About
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Practice Areas
Ross is well known for her expertise in the law of highways, common land, town and village greens, and other kinds of public access rights “top of the pile when it comes to rights of way and village greens work” - Chambers UK Bar.
She has acquired an understanding of the issues from all viewpoints, having acted for local authorities, landowners, developers, members of the public, and interested organisations such as The Ramblers’ Association. Conducting public inquiries into town or village green registration applications as an inspector has given her an additional perspective.
Her litigation experience in these fields has been divided between private law actions commenced in the Chancery Division and public law claims launched in the Administrative Court.
Ross’s practice also encompasses all aspects of real property law, such as restrictive covenants and boundary disputes “She is an extremely intellectually able person, who has a good grasp of the more rarefied aspects of land law and rights of way” Chambers UK Bar.
Career
Called to the Bar: 1986.
Ross appears regularly in both the Chancery Division and the Administrative Court. She has considerable experience of public inquiries, judicial reviews and statutory appeals.
Professional Memberships
Chancery Bar Association
Publications
Ross has contributed numerous articles to The Rights of Way Law Review and is an associate editor of The Law of Freedom of Information, published by Oxford University Press.
Chambers Review
UK Bar
Ross Crail
Ross Crail is an excellent junior specialising in real property, noted by peers for her intellectual prowess. Her practice covers both private and public law claims around rights of way, and she sits as a town and village green inspector. She regularly acts for public bodies, landowners and private individuals in both the Chancery Division and the Administrative Court.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ross is incredibly capable and outstandingly clever. She is undoubtedly an expert in her field, and her ability to deal with extremely complex issues, in what is a very niche area of the law, is second to none."
"Ross's intellect is dazzling and she is ferociously knowledgeable. She has an immense ability to assess all the facts of the case in a short time and to work them into a powerfully presented argument."
"Ross is an exceptional barrister, extremely clever and is really able to cut to the chase of difficult legal issues."
"She is a very technical and detailed barrister."
"Ross is incredibly capable and outstandingly clever. She is undoubtedly an expert in her field, and her ability to deal with extremely complex issues, in what is a very niche area of the law, is second to none."
"Ross's intellect is dazzling and she is ferociously knowledgeable. She has an immense ability to assess all the facts of the case in a short time and to work them into a powerfully presented argument."
"Ross is an exceptional barrister, extremely clever and is really able to cut to the chase of difficult legal issues."
"She is a very technical and detailed barrister."
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