Christopher Clue

Christopher is a qualified Chartered Legal Executive Litigator who works in the Property Litigation department at Osbornes Law.

He acts in claims in the High Court, County Court and First Tier Land Tribunals. Christopher provides down to earth pragmatic advice, whilst maintaining a commercial awareness when resolving disputes.

Christopher has a breadth of experience in providing advice relating to property ownership disputes, Party Wall disputes, boundary, easement and covenant disputes, rights of way disputes, TOLATA disputes, and Landlord and Tenant issues for both residential and commercial properties. Christopher also has experience in advising in construction arbitrations, debt recovery and litigation with defendants out of jurisdiction.

Christopher has specific interest and expertise in assisting in obtaining interim and final injunctive relief relating to issues arising from property development, damage and nuisance.

Christopher’s recent case highlights

Mandatory injunctive Relief – McGee v Cave [2023] EWHC 2718 (Ch)

Christopher successfully obtained both prohibitory and mandatory injunctive relief at the interim stage against a developer in the High Court, requiring them to remove the partially built extension over Christopher’s clients right of way, preventing further development of the land being undertaken without redesign and further planning permission. This case has been reported as an authority for parties now seeking interim mandatory injunctive relief due to its complexity.

TOLATA Claim

Christopher acted for a client who had split with her long-term partner of 15 years of which they had extensively renovated and jointly owned a property together. The partner was refusing to sell the property or buy out Christopher’s clients’ share. Christopher obtained a favorable purchase price for his client to buy out the partner below market value, with the partner also bearing the costs of the litigation.

Prohibitory Injunctive relief out of Jurisdiction

Christopher acted for a father, whose son held a number of properties on trust for him. The son was mortgaging the properties to fund purchases of supercars and membership to exclusive private members clubs in both London and Switzerland where he was resident. Christopher obtained interim prohibitory injunctive relief against the son preventing further mortgages of the property.