Nicholas Taggart has been long acknowledged as a “leading junior" in real estate litigation and also as having a substantial advisory practice. The 2011 edition of the Legal 500 describes him as being, "at the top of his game and a great all-round performer". Chambers and Partners 2010 describes him as "speedy, robust and clever", as well as having “a tremendous sense of humour which means that he is always fun to work with." Nicholas was awarded Real Estate Junior of the Year in 2011.
Principally a specialist in commercial property litigation, Nicholas has been involved in a number of high-profile matters involving properties such as London’s former County Hall, the “London Eye”, the Savoy Hotel, Liverpool Docks, Euston Tower, The Westfield Shopping Centre in White City, the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, Broadcasting House, the M3 extension at Twyford Down, Ashford International Station, the 2012 Olympic Village, the “Emirates” Stadium and the Buncefield oil terminal.
His breadth of experience also includes more unusual aspects of property law, such as the Electronic Communications Code.
The majority of Nicholas’s work involves the full spectrum of commercial landlord and tenant disputes. He has a very great deal of experience in all aspects of this work, but particularly in respect of dilapidations, forfeiture, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and commercial rent review. For further information on Nicholas’s Landlord and Tenant Law practice and examples of his cases, click here.
Nicholas is also heavily involved in a very wide range of real property work, both contentious and non-contentious, covering the more usual matters such as restrictive covenants, easements and conveyancing, but also the more unusual aspect of real property law, such as bona vacantia and the effect of royal grants and charters. He also has wide experience in dealing with professional negligence claims, both for claimants and insurers, arising out of property related transactions. For further information on Nicholas’s real property experience and cases he has appeared in, please click here.
Nicholas has a significant amount of experience in dealing with the real property aspects of telecommunications law, especially under the Electronic Communications Code 2003 (formerly, the Telecommunications Code). He advises a number of telecommunications operators, as well as landowners who have electronic communications apparatus situated on their land. For further information on this, and examples of Nicholas’s cases, please click here.
Nicholas’s environmental practice is an adjunct of his real property practice. His work in this area includes dealing with nuisance claims, and the conveyancing of contaminated land. For further information, please click here.
Nicholas acts in professional negligence claims, where they arise from property related matters or transactions, both for claimants and insurers. He also acts as an independent expert in respect of disputes between insurers and their insured in property-related professional negligence claims involving both barristers and solicitors. For further information please click here.
Chambers & Partners, 2010: ‘“a tremendous sense of humour which means that he is always fun to work with." His wide and accomplished practice impresses market sources, who say he is "speedy, robust and clever."’
Legal 500, 2011: ‘at the top of his game and a great all-round performer’.
For previous years' recommendations please click here.
Away from the law, Nicholas is a dedicated student of proper relaxation. His interests include reading military history books, listening to music not popular since the 1980s, supporting the Williams F1 team and conserving energy through personal inertia. He is married and has three cats.
Nicholas is a graduate of University College, London (LLB) and Wadham College, Oxford (BCL) and was called to the bar in 1991. He is a member of the Chancery Bar Association and the Property Bar Association.
Since 2008, he has been a visiting lecturer in law at the University of Oxford, assisting in the teaching of the “Commercial Leases” course to undergraduate Jurisprudence students. Previously, he was a lecturer in land law at the London School of Economics.
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