Daniel Greatrix

Item: Higgs LLP
Author: Legal 500

Principal Associate - Property Litigation

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About me

"I am a property litigation lawyer with a special interest in residential landlord and tenant disputes (such as service charges), boundary and Party Wall Act disputes and Trusts of Land.”

I am a senior member of the property litigation sub-team, within the overarching dispute resolution department. I joined Higgs in October 2015.

Prior to joining Higgs, I trained, qualified and practiced for about 15 years at another local regional law firm.

I have a wide and varied background in many forms of litigation, until finding my place in property disputes, which I have solely concentrated on, since 2015.

I am a member of the Property Litigation Association

Expertise

Property disputes

Experience

Successfully obtaining an order that confirmed a historic easement, argued to have been lost through the principle of unity of seisin, was live and enforceable and where the right was to take water from a borehole, using an electrically powered pump, such right must include ancillary rights for the supply of electricity to that pump.
Successfully regaining possession of religious and educational premises on behalf of the legal owners, who had been dispossessed by the community. Successfully arguing that no charitable, resulting, or constructive trust, or proprietary estoppel, arose in a private acquisition of land and its development into a mosque and associated car parking. Despite the intention behind the purchase being to benefit the community, this was not itself enough to create a charitable trust where there was no intention to create one. Nor was money loaned or donated by the community to fund the purchase of the land, or for its upkeep, enough to create a trust in the absence of properly formulated representations, promises or assurances

More about me

My hero

Steve Bull

Proudest moment to date

Becoming a dad

Favourite film

Anything with Bill Murray in it

Interesting fact

I once did a voiceover for a Bollywood film

Latest successes

Success Story

Constructive, resulting trusts and proprietary estoppel

14 March 2024

Success Story

An order for the existence of Easement and Ancillary Rights

21 November 2023

Success Story

Leaseholders challenge under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985

15 May 2023

"Their friendly and professional manner was exactly what I needed at that stressful time. The legal team explained each step of the process in simple to understand terms, which was a huge relief."

Legal 500

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Steps to end an assured shorthold tenancy

Sections 8 and 21 of the Housing Act 1988 provide two different procedures for the landlord to terminate an assured shorthold tenancy.

09 April 2024

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Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (‘ToLATA’)

Under ToLATA the court is given the power, on an application by a trustee of land or someone who has an interest in the property under the trust,

04 March 2024

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Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete: recovering remediation costs

Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) is failing in many buildings. It is currently making the news headlines, not least because it affects several buildings maintainable at public expense.

19 October 2023