Our
Property Litigation
Expertise
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:
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Acting for landlords and tenants in commercial and residential disputes;
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Court applications for relief against cancellation of commercial leases (forfeiture), recovery of debt and actions for possession,
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Maori land regulatory matters and Court applications relating to Maori reservation land;
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Sustaining and challenging caveats;
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Charging orders and writs of sale;
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Abandoned land applications and rating sales;
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Mortgagee sales;
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Applications for declarations as to legal interests in land, modification of easements and covenants;
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Property Law Act applications;
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Contractual disputes over the sale of land.
Recent work:
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Obtaining orders to extinguish historical and redundant covenants;
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Acting for landlord successfully defending application for relief against cancellation of commercial lease, and obtaining indemnity costs order against tenants.
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Assisting a vendor obtain court orders for damages against purchaser who purported to withdraw from agreement to purchase commercial land without valid grounds;
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Successfully obtaining declaration as to status of 999 year lease following Christchurch earthquake;
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