Cavell Leitch has extensive experience in property disputes, being property focussed since our firm’s inception in 1923.

Interesting legal conundrums arise within all areas of property law giving rise to disputes and where required, court proceedings.

Our dispute resolution team has extensive experience in a range of property related litigation including:

• Acting for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential disputes
• Court applications for relief against cancellation of commercial leases (forfeiture), recovery of debt and actions for possession
• Maori land regulatory matters and Court applications relating to Maori reservation land
• Sustaining and challenging caveats
• Charging orders and writs of sale
• Abandoned land applications and rating sales
• Mortgagee sales
• Applications for declarations as to legal interests in land, modification of easements and covenants
• Property Law Act applications
• Contractual disputes over the sale of land