Stephen Thompson
Senior Chartered Legal Executive in Litigation
Department:
Property Litigation and Dispute ResolutionExperience:
43 years
Education:
Stephen qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives around 1980.
Main Areas of Work:
- Professional Negligence claims.
- Residential property disputes including boundary issues.
- Claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act.
- Building disputes.
- Disputes between landlords and tenants.
- Planning application disputes.
- Contractual disputes.
- Partnership disputes.
- Disputes between shareholders and between directors.
- Probate claims including validity of wills, rights of inheritance, fitness of trustees and administration of estates.
- Harassment claims.
- Agency instructions.
Great / Notable achievements at Wake Smith:
- Acting for local vendor of student accommodation in defending claim for breach of warranty.
- Acting for the Claimant alleging undue influence of the testator by the main beneficiary.
- Acting for the executors in claim brought by the testator’s cohabitee with multiple defendants involved.
- Acting in various claims brought and defended under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act.
- Defending application in the Court of Protection for the removal of the attorney.
- Various landlord and tenant claims relating to residential properties.
- Acting for various claimants and defendants in boundary disputes/claim for trespass.
What clients say about you:
"My recent business dealings with Stephen Thompson were conducted very efficiently and speedily and I would not hesitate in him and indeed asking him for any further business requirements in the future." - Mrs Pamela Smith
“I found Stephen Thompson to be helpful, courteous and friendly. A job well done with efficiency.”
Recent articles by Stephen Thompson
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