22 03 2023
Bay Dining Ltd v BNP Paribas Depositary Services Ltd
Katrina has a busy property litigation practice and is particularly strong on disputes involving land registration, commercial landlord and tenant, and planning law issues that arise in the real estate context.
Her practice encompasses:
Katrina has significant experience acting in commercial disputes for large institutional clients, including property investors, developers, and household name retailers. With a background of experience in complementary areas of planning law, she is the counsel of choice for development work, or any property litigation case which has a planning law element.
Since 2020, she has also been appointed to the prestigious Attorney-General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel. In that capacity, she regularly advises central government departments on property issues of public importance and is standing counsel to the Chief Land Registrar.
During her career at Landmark, Katrina has developed extensive breadth and depth of written and oral advocacy experience in the Senior Courts, including in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, the High Court, as well in the First-tier Tribunal, the Upper Tribunal, and the County Court. Her varied experiences have also previously taken her into the magistrates’ courts, the Crown Court, and public inquiries, from which she has developed agility and clarity as an advocate.
Recent and notable appearances include:
Other experience:
Katrina sat on the University of Bristol’s Law School Advisory Board between 2013 and 2016 and is a guest LLB land law lecturer. She is a regular contributor to the Civil Court Service (the “Brown Book”) and the Civil Court Practice (the “Green Book”).
When she is not working at the law, Katrina is a keen singer and violinist who performs whenever she has the chance. She also enjoys learning languages and travelling, most recently taking-up surfing in Portugal and Morocco.
Katrina has a wide range of experience in planning law and continues to specialise in cases involving highly technical issues, particularly those relating to the Health and Safety Executive. Her expertise includes:
Notable cases include
Boundary and Ownership Disputes
Commercial Landlord and Tenant
Easements and Profits a Prendre
Land Registration and Adverse Possession
Witheringly bright, extremely determined, and very good on her feet... Katrina is absolutely ruthless in cross-examination and incredibly well prepared, which produces devastating results… [she is] great to work with… brilliant, incredibly practical, and very responsive."
cases
22 03 2023
Bay Dining Ltd v BNP Paribas Depositary Services Ltd
cases
20 01 2023
Campbell v Chief Land Registrar [2022] EWHC 200 (ChD)
cases
29 03 2022
Littler v Linden Ltd
cases
01 01 2022
Billings & Billings v Coyde Construction Ltd
Full Presentation
05 07 2021
“Bridging the Gap”: More Planning Pointers for Property Practitioners - webinar
Myriam Stacey KC, Jenny Wigley KC (Joint Head of Chambers), Katrina Yates, and Heather Sargent
cases
20 05 2020
R (HCP Hendon Ltd) v Chief Land Registrar [2020] EWHC 1278 (Admin)
news
03 04 2020
HSE consultation zones upheld and costs awarded
cases
13 02 2020
Coventry Parkside Development Ltd v Uninn Parkside Development Ltd (Claim No. PT-2020-000075),…
Academic
Professional
Lincoln’s Inn Scholarships
Pegasus Scholarship
Panels
Katrina is appointed to the Attorney General’s A Panel of Junior Counsel (2020 to date)
Previous panels include:
Associations
‘Reasons to be Rational: public law principles in contractual discretion cases’ (Mischon de Reya LLP, real estate in-house training seminar, January 2020).
‘Forfeiture: Nuts and Bolts’ (Landmark Chambers Seminar, 2019).
‘Landlord’s Consents: a Brief Guide’ (Freeths LLP, in-house seminar, 2018).
‘The Top Three Property Cases from 2017’ (Veale Wasbrough LLP, in-house seminar, 2018).
‘Adverse Possession and Land Registration workshop’ (Landmark Chambers Real Property Conference, 2017).
‘Unopposed Lease Renewals under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954: the ‘other terms’, procedure and tactics’ (Landmark Seminar, 2016).
‘Adverse Possession: crime and punishment, or crime and reward?’ (LLB lecture, University of Bristol, 2015).
Beginners’ Guide to Forfeiture (Landmark Seminar, 2014).
Land Registration: a practitioner’s perspective (LLB lecture, University of Bristol, 2013).
Long Leases: Forfeiture and other Modes of Determination: the Nuts and Bolts (Landmark Seminars, 2013 and 2011).
Indemnities for Costs under Schedule 8 to the Land Registration Act 2002: the Basis of Assessment (in-house training at HM Land Registry, 2012).
Gypsies and Planning: Where Are We Going? Recent Enforcement Cases (Landmark Seminar, 2010).
A Practical Guide to Enforcing the Mortgagee’s Security: warrants of possession and problems with third parties (Landmark Seminar, 2009).
Regular contributor to the Civil Court Service (aka “the Brown Book”).
Contributor to the nuisance chapter in Wooley et al, Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition).
‘Appealing the Discretionary Grant or Refusal of Relief in Judicial Review Proceedings’ (Judicial Review: A Quarterly Journal, [2009] JR 129).
Researcher to Professor Michael Furmston, Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston’s Law of Contract (Oxford University Press, 15th edition).
Real Estate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2024
Real Estate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2023
Real Estate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2023
Property Litigation, Legal 500, 2023
Real Estate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2022
Property Litigation, Legal 500, 2022
Chambers and Partners, 2021
Legal 500, 2021
Real Estate Litigation, Chambers and Partners, 2020
Legal 500, 2020
Chambers and Partners, 2019
Legal 500, 2019
Chambers and Partners, 2018
Legal 500, 2018
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