Wilson Horne

Practice Areas

Wilson’s real estate practice covers a l aspects of land and landlord and tenant law with a bias towards development work. He deals with related planning, environmental and highways issues. He has extensive experience of all types of commercial property agreements, including overage and section 106 agreements. He also has extensive experience of agricultural disputes. His work includes farming and property partnership / joint venture disputes. He handles cases concerning trust claims and claims for equitable relief, and many of these claims are allied to his property work. He deals with claims under the Telecommunications Act, Building Act and the Estate Agents Act. Wilson is a regular user of the TCC Court and practices in the area of construction and engineering issues related to his commercial property and development work. He has extensive experience of civil fraud in development and transactional settings. Wilson’s professional negligence work falls within his normal practice areas, with particular emphasis on solicitors, surveyors and construction professionals. A significant proportion of Wilson’s work is dealt with in arbitration and expert determination, and he is experienced in challenging these decisions. His clients include national developers, central and local government departments, diverse tenant operators and major land owners. Wilson’s most recent reported cases include:

David John Jones v Haulen Griffiths and another [2025] EWHC 797 (KB). The case concerned a claim in unjust enrichment in respect of works carried out to a property registered in the name of a third party. The Appeal Court considered in detail the concept of free acceptance .

Bootle v GHL Management and Development Ltd and another [2025] EWHC 317 (Ch). This was a very substantial High Court trial of a commercial boundary dispute that included significant expert surveying evidence relating to OS symobology and the mereing process.

Lomax and another v Dimelow and another [2024] EWHC 3625 (TCC). This High Court trial concerned the interpretation of conditional land options and whether the options had been validly exercised. The Court had to consider the effect of an expert determination challenge being brought in respect of the determination of the net residual value that formed the basis for the option price. This related to the issue of the right to terminate and whether the expert determinatio

Career

University of Leeds LLB (Hons), Called 1992 (Lincoln's Inn). Regularly accepts direct access and licensed access instructions.

Professional Memberships

Chancery Bar Association

Planning and Environmental Bar Association

Northern Business and Property Bar Association

Agricultural Law Association

Publications

He is a regular contributor to Property Law UK

Personal

Away from work Wilson is a lover of the great outdoors and spends most of his spare time enjoying his working farm.