Nigel Meares
Call: 1975
Education: BA (Cantab)
Email: meares@11sb.com
Tel: 020 7831 6381 (345#)
Nigel's Clerks
Matthew Curness
Richard Powell
Practice Specialisms:
Profile
Nigel Meares is a barrister specialising in traditional chancery work, including:
- Trust and Property Litigation
- Mortgages
- Contentious and non contentious probate
- Commercial and residential property drafting and advice
- Court of Protection
- Trust drafting and advice
- Wills drafting and estate planning
Nigel works in the mainstream of traditional Chancery Bar work. His practice includes commercial property litigation; deceit and breach of warranty claims; contentious disputes arising from valuation provisions in sales of large scale residential property development land.
Some notable cases - West Bromwich Building Society v Wilkinson (Court of Appeal [2004] EWCA Civ 1063, andHouse of Lords [2005] 4 All ER 97), which concerned limitation of actions for mortgage arrears shortfalls and is one of the few real property cases that have reached the House of Lords, Benn v Hardinge 66 P & CR 246, which concerned abandonment of easements and caused a re-write of a passage in Megarry and Wade’s Law of Real Property; Sampson v Floyd (1989) 2 EGLR 49 which concerned damages for breach of the covenant for quiet enjoyment.