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Nigel Clayton | Kings Chambers
nclayton@kingschambers.com
"He provides excellent written advice. Clients comment on his professional and approachable manner." "Very thorough and good with detail."
Nigel Clayton practises solely in Real Property Law including Probate and Trusts and related areas, and specialises in Mortgage Law and Litigation. He is regularly recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ in Real Property and Mortgage Law in the Legal 500.
Nigel is an acknowledged expert in Mortgage Law and Litigation. He has considerable experience of acting for banks, building societies, centralised lenders and bridging finance companies as well as borrowers. He is the author of Mortgage Possession Actions (Sweet & Maxwell) and maintains his own specialist Mortgage Law website www.legalmortgage.co.uk. Nigel is regularly instructed in relation to:
(1) Settling mortgage deeds, mortgage conditions and related deeds and documents
(2) The construction and enforcement of mortgages and related securities
(3) Obtaining, protecting and enforcing charging orders
(4) Issues as to title, priorities, overriding interests and applications for alteration/indemnity at HMLR
(5) Substantive defences – forgery, non est factum, undue influence, misrepresentation, subrogation, duties on sale, limitation, s 36 AJA 1970, s 140A CCA 1974
(6) The appointment and duties of LPA Receivers
(7) FSMA/MCOB/CCA compliance
CIBC Mortgages Plc v Pitt [1994] 1 AC 200 (House of Lords, mortgages, undue influence)
MAES Finance Ltd v Shriskantharaja [1988] EWCA Civ 485 (Court of Appeal, mortgages, appeals)
Eagle Star Ltd v Karasiewicz [2002] EWCA Civ 940 (Court of Appeal, mortgages, subrogation)
Michael v Miller [2004] EWCA Civ 282 (Court of Appeal, mortgages, mortgagee’s duties on sale)
First Mortgage Securities No. 9 Ltd v Smith [2005] EWHC 2455 (Ch) (Chancery Division, mortgages, possession orders)
Nolan v Wright [2009] 3 All ER 823 (Chancery Division, consumer credit, limitation)
English v English [2010] EWHC 2058 (Ch) (Chancery Division, mortgages, forgery, solicitors’ duty of care)
Nigel deals with all aspects of drafting, advisory and litigation work in the areas of:
(1) Land Law including title, conveyancing, boundaries, adverse possession, easements, restrictive covenants, co-ownership etc
(2) Landlord and Tenant including all aspects of business, residential and agricultural possession claims, dilapidations, lease renewals, rent reviews
(3) Related professional negligence claims
Nigel is a contributing editor of the Property Law website www.propertylawuk.net
• Re Solarfilms (Sales) Ltd’s Application (1993) 67 P & CR 110 (Lands Tribunal, application to vary or discharge restrictive covenants)
• Bennett v North West Water [1996] RVR 30 (Lands Tribunal, assessment of compensation)
• Pierce v The Coal Authority [2000] EWLands LCA 2 (Lands Tribunal, assessment of compensation)
• Gibbons v Pickard [2002] EWCA Civ 1780 (Court of Appeal, boundary dispute)
• Saxon v Moore [2005] EWHC 27 (Ch) (Chancery Division, boundary dispute)
• Taylor v Crotty [2006] EWCA Civ 1364 (Court of Appeal, option to purchase)
• Ferraro (R on the application of) v Albert Dock Management Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1489 (Court of Appeal, landlord and tenant, civil restraint orders)
Nigel is a full member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He was trained in an old-style Chancery Chambers with an emphasis on Will and Trust drafting and non-contentious advisory work.
He undertakes all aspects of drafting/advisory/litigation work in the following areas:
(1) Wills/Probate/Administration
(2) Issues involving the validity of Wills and Trusts, construction and rectification claims
(3) Duties of Executors, Administrators and Trustees
(4) Breach of Trust claims
(5) Charitable Trusts
(6) Inheritance Act claims
(7) Related professional negligence
Lynch v Webb [2014] EWHC 399 (Ch) (Chancery Division, construction of trust deeds/rectification)
Full Member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners
Recorder (Civil 2002) (Private Family 2011)
Junior Counsel to the Crown Provincial Panel (2000-2013)
Mortgage Possession Actions (Sweet & Maxwell)
Editor of www.legalmortgage.co.uk
Contributing editor of www.propertylawuk.net
LLB (Hons) 1986
Call: 1987 (Inner Temple)
"An excellent advocate who cuts through issues with clear and concise argument."
"He has the ear of the court."
"Very sensible and able to cut through the issues. If I had a personal dispute for property he would be the guy I would go to every time." "Easy to deal with and thoroughly prepared." "Really able and approachable. He gets to grips with things quickly and gets results."
"He has solid advocacy skills."
“A mortgage law specialist.”
“Of the highest calibre in real property and mortgage law.”