Timothy Morshead KC

Practice Areas

Tim practices in real estate law across its full gamut.

Tim has appeared in many leading property cases, including interpretation of contracts as well as the valuation, rating, planning and public law issues. He has expertise in nuisance, professional negligence, compulsory purchase, highways, town and village greens and local government law. Tim has been nominated for the Real Estate Silk of the Year in the Chambers UK Awards 2024.

Tim’s recent cases include Darwall v National Park Authority (camping on Dartmoor), Esso v Breen (protester injunctions) and Circus Apartments v Canary Riverside (single largest piece of litigation currently, or ever, underway in the LVT). His reported cases reflect the diversity of his practice. Many will be familiar to practitioners across a broad range of fields: eg Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row (proprietary estoppel), Chartbrook v Persimmon (contractual interpretation), Arnold v Britton (contractual interpretation), Peacock v Custins (easements), Regency Villas (easements), TfL v City of London (highways), Woolway (VO) v Mazars (rating).

In silk, Tim’s work remains focused on the full gamut of real estate law, he advises and appears in some of the most challenging and complex cases, often involving “crossover” issues where two or more disparate areas of law must be brought together. He has expertise in all aspects of conventional “Chancery”-type property law and landlord & tenant law, including its equitable aspects such as proprietary and other estoppels and constructive trusts - and professional negligence in these fields.