Katherine has a broad practice encompassing a wide variety of chancery and commercial litigation, including advisory work. She has particular interest in insolvency and property law.
As regards insolvency, Katherine’s practice includes:
• petitions for bankruptcy and winding up
• applications to set aside statutory demands
• validation orders
• annulment and rescission applications
• applications for possession and sale
• actions against officers for misfeasance
• transactions at an undervalue, preferences, unlawful dividends etc
• challenges to office-holders’ remuneration and expenses
Katherine’s property-related work includes:
• landlord and tenant disputes (residential and commercial, including ASBO-related matters)
• real property (boundary disputes, adverse possession claims, easements and rights of way)
• trusts of land matters (including orders for sale)
• proprietary estoppel
• mortgage repossessions (including mortgage fraud)
She is also particularly interested in disputes relating to beneficial interests in property.
Katherine’s commercial practice covers:
• company law
• breach of contract
• sale of goods
• supply of services
• contracts regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974
• personal guarantees and indemnities
Katherine’s probate-related practice covers:
• the validity, interpretation and rectification of wills
• administration of estates
• claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependants) Act 1975
• challenges to wills on the grounds on lack of testamentary capacity, want of knowledge and approval and undue influence