Cavell Leitch has extensive experience in property law actions, being property focussed since our firm’s inception in 1923.  Our litigation team operates on a national level and partners with clients and our wider property team to deliver solutions across a wide range of matters.

 

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

 

Recent work:

 

• Obtaining orders to extinguish historical and redundant covenants;

 

• Acting for landlord successfully defending application for relief against cancellation of commercial lease, and obtaining indemnity costs order against tenants.

 

• Assisting a vendor obtain court orders for damages against purchaser who purported to withdraw from agreement to purchase commercial land without valid grounds;

 

• Successfully obtaining declaration as to status of 999 year lease following Christchurch earthquake;