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About Us

After graduating from Southampton University, Janet was articled with Stephenson Harwood  and qualified in 1978.  She joined Davenport Lyons in 2002 from DLA and is a partner in the Property Department heading up the Contentious Property Group. She became head of the Property Department in March 2008.

She has extensive experience of commercial property related contentious matters acting for the full range of property clients - major property and development companies, private property investment companies, charities, accountants, Insurance companies, quasi Governmental bodies and lending institutions.

Her clients have included Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sun Life Assurance Society, CIT Group, Frasers, Greenwich NHS Trust and Covent Garden Market Authority advising on:

  • All aspects of commercial landlord and tenant litigation including Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (as amended) matters, rent reviews, dilapidations claims, breach of covenant and forfeiture claims.
  • Enfranchisement claims – acting for both landlords and tenants.
  • Disputes between neighbours including right to light claims involving both commercial and residential property.
  • Contractual disputes.
  • Insolvency insofar as it relates to property.
  • Profession Negligence Claims.



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