Source: https://www.tanfieldchambers.co.uk/person/timothy-polli-qc/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 23:03:18+00:00

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Contributor to “Service Charges & Management: Law & Practice”.
Contributor to the Pyramus & Thisbe Club case law update on Party Wall cases.
Timothy Polli QC specialises in property and commercial law and associated professional negligence.
He has broad experience encompassing most aspects of real property, mortgages and banking, both commercial and residential landlord and tenant, trusts of land and proprietary estoppel.
Tim’s commercial practice is also fairly broad, but he has a particular interest in unjust enrichment, partnerships, joint ventures, franchising and the recovery of misappropriated monies.
Tim is regularly instructed to make applications for emergency injunctive relief (including freezing injunctions).
Tim combines an analytical style with a ‘can do’ approach to problem solving and a common-sense awareness of the commercial realities underpinning any litigation. He is familiar with the requirements of working with a team of solicitors and/or Counsel and, when necessary, is available out of office hours.
Landlord and tenant including dilapidations claims; break clauses; lease renewals; forfeiture and applications for relief; disputes arising out of requests for licence to assign or alter; disputes arising out of the insolvency of landlord or tenant; service charge disputes (for example, Heron Maple House Ltd v Central Estates Ltd  1 EGLR 35); RTM and enfranchisement; agricultural and farm business tenancies.
Real property disputes concerning boundaries, adverse possession, easements and restrictive covenants (for example, Beech v Kennerley  EWCA Civ 158); party walls and rights of light; security interests in land (see Banking and Mortgages, below); land registration, rectification and the priority of competing interests (see, for example, Bank of Cyprus v Menelaou  EWHC 2656 (Ch)).
Banking and mortgages, in particular instances of mortgage fraud (for example, Credit & Mercantile plc v Kaymuu Ltd & others  EWCA Civ 655; UCB Home Loans Corporation v Grace & Co (2010) LTL 15/12/2010 (Ch) and  EWHC 851) or defective security, subrogation (for example Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus  UKSC 66;  AC 176 and  EWHC 2656 (Ch)), claims to and the enforcement of equitable security rights (see, again, Menelaou especially at  EWHC 2656 (Ch)); LPA and fixed charge receivers; disputes over the priority of securities (for example, Strata Residential v Nat West Bank plc (2013, Unreported, Manchester District Registry) and Menelaou at  EWHC 2656 (Ch)); the enforcement of guarantees; the mis-selling of financial products, particularly contracts for differences.
Claims for equitable interests pursuant to constructive trusts or proprietary estoppel (for example, Credit & Mercantile plc v Kaymuu Ltd & others  EWHC 1746 (Ch); Wombwell v James (2014, Unreported, CLCC).
Contracts for the sale of land; construction of such contracts; failure to complete, the forfeiture of deposits and/or specific performance; the recovery of deposits pursuant to s. 49 Law of Property Act 1925; misrepresentations in pre-contractual enquiries; unpaid vendor’s liens (see, again, Menelaou  EWHC 2656 (Ch)).
Property-related professional liability, particularly that of valuers and solicitors (for example Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus v Boulter & Co  EWCA Civ 1960); lender claims for breach of trust (for example, UCB Home Loans Corporation v Grace & Co (2010) LTL 15/12/2010 (Ch) and  EWHC 851).
Commercial contract disputes including disputes concerning development agreements and joint-ventures; unjust enrichment claims for restitutionary remedies (see, again, Menelaou, particularly in the Court of Appeal ( 1 WLR 854) and Supreme Court  AC 176); construction disputes; disputes relating to franchise agreements; actions to recover misappropriated monies (for example, Bashir v Bashir  EWHC 1043 (Ch)) and to claim the proceeds of fraud; claims for misrepresentation; recission for mistake; applications for emergency injunctive relief (for example, UCB Homes Loans Corporation v Grace  EWHC 851 (Ch)).
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd  EWHC 2656 (Ch) The nature and enforcement of unpaid vendor's liens; priority of competing equitable interests; Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996; section 90 Law of Property Act 1925; Human Rights.
Shaista v Victorstone Financial Limited  EWHC 1505 (Ch) Construction of express deeds of trust; sham transactions; transactions defrauding creditors under s. 423 Insolvency Act 1986.
Stevens v Ismail  UKUT 43 (LC) Variation of leasehold covenants; construction of deed of variation of lease; substitution of lease plan; surrender by operation of law.
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus  UKSC 66;  AC 176 Mortgages; defective security; restitution / unjust enrichment and "at the expense of"; direct and indirect expense; availability of proprietary remedy for unjust enrichment; nature of mortagee's interest in proceeds of sale of mortgaged property; quistclose trusts; subrogation to unpaid vendor's lien.
Wishart v Credit & Mercantile Plc  EWCA Civ 655;  2 P&CR 15 Mortgage fraud; overriding interests; the Brocklesby principle; construction of mortgage provisions securing legal costs.
Credit & Mercantile Plc v Kaymuu Ltd & Others  EWHC 1746 (Ch) Mortgage fraud; beneficial interest under resulting trust or to Pallant v Morgan or common intention constructive trust; overriding interests; whether the inherent quality of the beneficial interest was such that it took subject to the lender’s charge.
Wombwell v James  (Unreported, Central London) Claim for a new leasehold interest purusant to proprietary estoppel or constructive trusts; certainty of representations communicated by sign language.
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus  EWCA Civ 1960;  1 WLR 854 Mortgages; defective security; unjust enrichment; subrogation to unpaid vendor's lien.
UCB Home Loans Corporation v Soni  EWCA Civ 62 Professional liability claim by lender against innocent apparent partner of fraudulent solicitor; 'holding out' and limits of liability under section 14(1) of the Partnership Act 1890.
Bashir v Bashir  EWHC 1043 (Ch) Suspected misappropriation of monies by Deputy; breach of trust; taking of an account and summary judgment on specific items in that account.
Beech v Kennerley  EWCA Civ 158 (CA) Boundaries; construction of deeds of conveyance; easements; rights of way; lack of apparent destination or purpose for right of way; apparent express right of way no such thing.
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus v Boulter & Co  EWHC 1991 (Ch) Mortgages; defective security; professional liability claim by lender against solicitors arising out of failure to obtain a genuine signature on charge; unjust enrichment; subrogation to unpaid vendor's lien.
UCB Home Loans Corporation v Grace & Others  EWHC 851 (Ch) Worldwide freezing injunctions; proving risk of dissipation; dishonesty; appointment of receivers by way of equitable execution.
UCB Home Loans Corporation v Grace & Co (2010) LTL 15/12/2010 (Ch) Defective security; professional liability of lender's former solicitor; breach of trust; authority to release client funds; meaning of "completion" in standard CML instructions.
Saggars v UCB Homes Loans Corporation Ltd & Others  Mortgage fraud; defective security; professional liability of lender's former solicitor.
Andrew Butler and Timothy Polli will be appointed Queen’s Counsel in February.

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