Daniel Gatty

Hardwicke Chambers

Daniel is a member of Hardwicke chambers. He specialises in disputes about property, the emphasis being on real property and commercial landlord and tenant. Daniel is also well known for his expertise in mortgages and secured lending. His residential landlord and tenant practice focuses on leasehold enfranchisement. Daniel’s other work tends to involve property but less directly, for example professional negligence claims relating to conveyancing and surveyors/valuers and partnership actions where the assets of the partnership include land/properties.

Daniel is recommended as a leading junior for property litigation in The Legal 500 and Chambers UK. In 2008 Daniel was appointed as a Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and since 2013 he has been a judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber, Land Registration). He is an ADR Group accredited mediator.

Before coming to the Bar he briefly worked in media and advertising.

Contributed to

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If a lease contains a covenant permitting use of a premises as a laundrette and the tenant is using the premises for dry cleaning services, is this a breach of the user covenant? If so, is it a continuing or once and for all breach?

Q&As

In a commercial lease (with security of tenure) the expiry date has not been reached, however the tenant company has been liquidated and the lease disclaimed. The personal guarantor has continued to pay the rent (and we assume, occupy the premises) but the landlord has not required the guarantor to take a new lease for the remainder of the term. Does the lease continue to exist as far as the guarantor is concerned and if it does, can the guarantor serve notice under section 27(1) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 to bring the lease to an end on the expiry date, or merely vacate prior to the expiry date under section 27(1)(A)?

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What happens in a commercial tenancy if, following the service of a tenant’s request for a new tenancy under section 26 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 which the landlord has opposed, the tenant does not renew before the date specified in the s 26 request?

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Where an easement has been gained by prescription over a long period of use, what rights does the dominant landowner have to maintain the right of way? Can he force the servient owner to accept that repairs are necessary if he is willing to carry them out at his own expense?

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Practice areas

Membership

Chancery Bar Association
Property Bar Association
Professional Negligence Bar Association

Panel

Q&A Panel

Education

Manchester University, B.A.(Econ.)Hons. in Politics and Economics
City University, Dip. Law

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