Construction disputes • Geotechnical-related matters, i.e. insurance claims for subsidence & ground engineering design • Surveyors' negligence • Boundary disputes • Civil & structural engineering-related matters

Experience appearing before planning inquiries and hearings, with a good track record of successful outcomes. Able to supply and prepare Proofs of Evidence, Statements of Common Ground and Rebuttal Proofs of Evidence. Advice encompasses: i. National Planning Policy Framework, guidance and development planning policies ii. Planning appeals/Local Plan examinations iii. Listed buildings and conservation areas iv. Development management/control v. Compulsory purchase/Lands Tribunal vi. Judicial review of planning decisions

During the 31 years of my business life I have practised as a surveyor advising on many aspects of residential and commercial property, investment, development and management. This includes: • Valuation • Survey • Pathology • Defect diagnosis • Sale • Letting • Purchase • Management • Repair • Advice on landlord and tenant • Dilapidations • Boundary disputes • Party walls • Right to light • Building disputes I have extensive valuation experience on residential and commercial properties throughout London, the South East and UK wide procured...

Building pathology • Construction defects and costs • Boundary disputes • Professional negligence • Building surveying

• Dispute resolution claims, adjudication and arbitration • Professional negligence claims - Philip regularly acts for parties that are seeking compensation from a negligent surveyor or representing surveyors where an allegation of negligence has been made • Expert witness reports acting as a claimant, defendant and/or single joint expert in building dispute matters • Party wall consultant and published author on the Party Wall Act, first person to undertake doctoral research into the Party Wall, etc., Act 1996 •...

Accomplished expert witness in all aspects of tree consultancy with high court experience • Holder of the 2001 AA Award for excellence in arboriculture • Occasionally instructed as a single joint expert, advising on a range of issues, including planning advice to personal injury cases arising from tree failures • Specialist experience includes being retained by insurers dealing with tree losses throughout Europe • Please visit the website for a more detailed schedule of all court appearances

Arboriculture • Arboriculture accident investigation • Arboriculture planning & development • Arboriculture tree risk assessment • Arboriculture health & safety • Arboriculture professional negligence • Arboriculture training

Mark has expertise in: • Tree safety • Trees in relation to accidents • Trees and boundary disputes • Root encroachment • Trees and planning • Amenity tree valuation • Tree Preservation Orders • Tree pruning (quality thereof) • Management of trees in relation to structural damage • Professional negligence relating to tree management, including planning applications

With 38 years' professional experience of interpretation and mapping from historic and modern aerial photographs, stereoscopic pairs of analogue aerial photographs, digital aerial imagery, Lidar data and satellite imagery • Interpretation and use of historic and modern map evidence • Evidence provision for heritage and archaeology, legal land use, adverse possession, town and village green matters, boundary issues and disputes, property curtilage and extent, building regulations issues, planning, rights of way...

Building surveying • Expert in all aspects of building litigation, including defective construction, including, but not exclusively, drains, cavity walls, mortar, brickwork, roofs, floors, drainage, windows, dampness, condensation, concrete • Valuation for interim or final accounts • Advice on building contracts • Professional negligence • Whether a house is built to NHBC Building Regulations or Building Guarantee Standards • Party wall awards • Expert reports & advice • Compliant with CPR Other offices: (i) 1 Kew Place,...

Forestry Forestry & woodland management • Illegal felling • Timber theft • Loss of capital value • Breach of contracts • Review & breach of forestry leases • Damage to forestry crops & trees • Loss arising from fire, livestock grazing, pesticides • Valuations Arboriculture Tree health & safety • Claims arising from injury at work, death, serious injury & damage to property • Damage caused to trees by building work • Replacement value & aftercare • Planning

Japanese knotweed • Boundary disputes • Residential construction disputes • Leasehold enfranchisement • Valuations • Easements • Restrictive covenants

Professional - Neighbourly I am appointed as party wall surveyor for building owners and adjoining owners. I frequently provide advice to parties wishing to undertake work close to or on the boundary, which may or may not fall within the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. This includes commercial and domestic clients. I am employed to help resolve disputes between parties over neighbourly matters, including the undertaking of building works or the removal of boundary features by one party, the position of the boundary,...

Iain specialises in the valuation of residential, commercial, agricultural and forested real estate in the rural and market town sector in Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and the Home Counties. He also provides advice on many rural estate and development issues, including the value of restrictive covenants. Iain has 30 years' experience of the real estate sector, providing valuation, planning and estate management advice and services to Central and Local Government, charitable sector and private landowners. 17 years...

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor, Chartered Project Manager and RICS Registered Valuer with over 25 years’ experience in project management and general building consultancy across the public and private sectors. I have completed the Legal Experience Training Advanced Professional Award in Expert Witness Evidence and am a member of the Academy of Experts. I have prepared several CPR-compliant expert witness reports either as a single joint expert or a sole expert. This includes disputes over: • Professional...

Expert arboricultural evidence for developers & local authorities in planning appeals, hearings & public local inquiries • Expert witness statements & evidence relating to litigation involving arboriculture, tree root damage, subsidence, Tree Preservation Orders & high hedge disputes • Evidence relating to arboriculture, woodland management, insurance & valuation • Having previously been MD of the largest landscape & grounds maintenance contractor in the UK, I also specialise in resolution of contractual disputes,...

Arboricultural consultant with experience as a Single Joint Expert and in Criminal, Civil and Coroner's Courts • Tree biology • Subsidence investigations for tree & property owners • Tree safety & accidents • Tree root damage to property & slips/trips • Personal injury claims as a result of tree roots & falling branches/trees • Professional negligence • Tree Preservation Orders - administration, applications & appeals • Trees & the planning process, including BS5837 & planning appeals • Valuation of amenity trees for civil...

Building surveying • Building technology • Buildings • Alterations to buildings • Damp in buildings • Dilapidations • Dilapidation of buildings • Construction of buildings • Construction • Architecture • Fire • Fire safety • Building regulations • Boundary disputes • Party walls • Building design • Building defects • Construction defects • Building inspection • Building condition • Building Act • Building engineering • Building pathology • Commercial buildings

Residential and commercial valuations • Dilapidations • Building surveys • Leasehold extensions and enfranchisement • Japanese Knotweed diminution of value

Building surveying: • Structural surveys & valuation • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Building defect diagnosis • Construction & contract administration • Building disputes • Subsidence damage • Leasehold dilapidations • Duties of a Chartered Surveyor or Valuer & negligence • Double glazing & conservatory disputes • Fire damage • Fire precautions & means of escape • Kitchen & joinery installation disputes Simon Levy is the Principal of an active, multi-disciplined practice of Chartered Building Surveyors and Designers....

Domestic building disputes • Building surveying • Valuation disputes, including professional negligence matters • Surveying & valuing • Boundary disputes • Party wall matters

Property boundary disputes - commercial, residential and agricultural - in built or rural environments Prefers to act for legal professionals, but each dispute is unique.

Provides professional services in the following field of expertise: • Construction defects • Building contract and property title disputes • Landlord and tenant dilapidations • Section 11 housing disrepair

Many years as an Engineer, a Captain and a RYA Instructor • Qualified experienced marine engineer with a degree in electrical engineering For the last 20 years the majority of my work has been with Hatteras Yachts as their International Service Director, and then Sunseeker Yachts travelling worldwide. I have trained military personnel, Border Force, National River Authority and police forces. Considerable experience of Sunseeker, Princess, Fairline, Birchwood, Gulf Craft, Hatteras, Sealine, Avon, Delta • Marine...

Building defects • Works not in accordance with Building Regulations • Reviews of design information in relation to scope • Reviews of the design/construction of external walls with respect to Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations (e.g. material specification, cavity barriers) • Performance of the architect or lead designer

Valuation of residential properties for taxation purposes (e.g. IHT, CGT) • Valuations for probate, trusts and Court of Protection matters • Valuation of residential property • Consideration of structural defects • Professional negligence of property professionals & solicitors • Boundary disputes • Effect of above matters on property values • Surveying, professional negligence • Structural surveying, professional negligence • Leasehold extension & freehold enfranchisement cases

Building contract disputes: financial & contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness & disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Access to neighbouring land • Insolvency claims in construction contracts • Mr Frias-Robles is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) • Party wall expert & Chairman of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club (Wessex Branch)

Boundary disputes • Boundary demarcation • Conveyance plan clarification • Plans for vehicle accident sites • Professional negligence reports • Land parcel area calculations & reports • Land volume calculations & reports

Building pathology • Construction defects and costs • Boundary disputes • Professional negligence Other experts in the company: Mr Richard Brasnett Chartered Building Surveyor & Mr Aidan Stephenson Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Party wall disputes • Building contract disputes - typically domestic to a value of £250,000 • Residential service charge disputes - acting for either freeholder or leaseholder • Housing disrepair - Section 11 complaints - acting for either landlord or tenant • Building element condition and compliance for personal injury cases (and similar)

Arboriculture (tree surgery) • Forestry accidents at work involving employees, third parties &/or property • Trees on development sites (planning & protection issues) • Trees & low-rise building subsidence • Injury or damage caused by tree failure • Damage to trees by third parties • Illegal treework operations (felling)

Arboricultural consultancy of all kinds, including: • Investigation of cases where subsidence or heave has occurred and involvement of trees is suspected. • Site surveys and reports for architects and developers, preparation of planning submissions and proofs of evidence for appeal hearings and public inquiries. • Assistance with Tree Preservation Order appeals. • Investigation of tree-related accidents. • Litigation concerning dangerous trees: nuisance and trespass. • Valuation of amenity trees and woodlands.

1. Cargo damage 2. Navigation and shipping accidents 3. Contract disputes in oil and gas 4. Shipbuilding and maintenance disputes 5. Ship management and charter party disputes 6. Bunkering and ship supply 7. Bill of lading disputes 8. Ship recycling disputes 9. Port operations 10. Port maritime services 11. Goods transportation on land 12. Cargo clearance and customs 13. Investment in maritime assets

Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor with considerable expert witness & litigation experience, including: • Arbitration & Higher Tier Tribunals • Banking & other business & property disputes • Farm business advice, including finance & business restructuring • Agricultural insolvency & receivership • Planning & development • Agricultural tenancies, including as an adviser to Defra as a member of the Farm Tenancy Forum • Chairs the RICS Agricultural Tenancies Monitoring Group • Valuation • Boundaries • Experience includes county...

• Litigation disputes relating to rights of way, access and wayleave agreements, covenants, uplift agreements. • State involvement in agriculture and farming; the impact of food production campaigns of the first and second world wars; agri-environment schemes. • Historical research • Enclosures • Changes in land ownership • The National Farm Survey 1941-43. • Tenancy and access agreements: sporting rights, tenancy and access agreements, agri-environmental schemes. • Management and access agreements for infrastructure...

Arboriculture • Arboricultural impact assessments • Tree inspection & surveys • Dangerous trees • Decay • Tree health & safety surveys & reports • Tree Preservation Orders • Tree protection & planning • Tree amenity assessments • High hedges • Conservation areas

Investigation of evidence as to status of a highway • Evaluation of Public Path Order Proposals • Assessment of definitive map modification orders & applications

Expert witness for boundary disputes throughout the UK. I specialise in boundaries, and write approximately 5 CPR35 reports per month - over 500 in the last 10 years. I have provided oral evidence in court and at tribunals on 25 occasions in the last 10 years. I provide clear, concise reports and plans relating to boundary issues. I regularly attend joint meetings with surveyors from opposing parties. I can provide Determined Boundary plans and HMLR-compliant plans.

Chartered Building Surveyor and Chartered Procurement Consultant, with specialisms in the following: • Building defects analysis • Building pathology • Building maintenance • Construction projects • Construction design and management • Contractual matters (under JCT/NEC/ACA forms of contract) on all types of contract, including new build, maintenance and refurbishment • Public procurement • Public sector projects • Neighbourly disputes