
Jonathan Ward
Call 2019 – Middle Temple
Jon is a former solicitor and partner with a Devon firm. He transferred to the Bar completing a reduced period of pupillage under the mentorship of Russell James.
His experience and expertise are in chancery, property and trust matters and commercial and construction matters – he has a busy practice in these areas. He regularly accepts instructions in all aspects of housing matters and both residential and commercial landlord and tenant matters. Jon also has a particular interest and expertise in planning and public law matters. He has experience in both non contentious and contentious practice and is equally comfortable in advisory work and advocacy.
Jon appears regularly in the County Court and the High Court, the First Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and Upper Tribunal, instructed in trials and appeals alike. Jon also undertakes family work with a particular interest in TOLATA matters, and children and finance matters.
Jon accepts instructions relating to:
- easements,
- restrictive covenants (interpretation, s.84 applications, breaches, enforcement, discharge), adverse possession,
- boundary disputes,
- alteration and rectification at HM Land Registry,
- co-ownership,
- constructive and resulting trusts,
- proprietary estoppel,
- gifts and loans,
- trusts
- option agreements,
- contracts for the sale of land (including specific performance, rectification and rescission),
- leasehold covenants,
- residential landlord and tenant matters,
- commercial landlord and tenant matters,
- possession claims,
- charges,
- professional negligence claims,
- construction contracts,
- construction disputes,
- complex geotechnical and engineering disputes.
Jon accepts instructions relating to:
- Partnership disputes,
- Shareholder disputes,
- Director disputes,
- Insolvency,
- Joint Venture Agreements,
- Business to business disputes,
- Business to consumer disputes,
- General commercial contracts,
- Professional negligence claims,
- Tortious matters.
Jon also accepts instructions in non-contentious and advisory cases.
Jon accepts instructions relating to:
- Disrepair,
- Anti-social behaviour,
- Possession,
- Homelessness,
Jon accepts instructions relating to:
- Appeals,
- Costs,
- Injunctions,
- Judicial review,
- Mineral extraction
- Waste,
- Environmental matters
LL.B (Hons), First Class. Plymouth University.
LPC, Distinction, University of Law
Plymouth Business School PhD full scholarship
Dean’s List (Plymouth University)
Best law graduate
Best property law (land and equity and trusts) student
Law Society best dispute resolution skills student
Best first year law student
Ward, J., ‘Conjoined Appeals – PNRAG v SS CLG (1), Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd (2); Frackman v SSCLG, Lancashire CC, Cuadrilla Bowland Ltd, Cuadrilla Elswick Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 9. Case Commentary’, Journal of Environmental Law and Management, (2018) 30
Channing, I., and Ward, J., “Homophobia, Brexit and Constitutional Change”, Safer Communities, 2017
Ward, J., “Acquiring the right to get to the light at the end of the tunnel; rationalising property theory”, PLR 2016
Modern Studies in Property Law – 2016 (International). Ward, J., ‘Acquiring the Right to Get to the Light at the End of the Tunnel – Rationalising Property Theory”
Association for Law Property and Society – 2016 (International). Ward, J., ‘Sense and Sensibility – Rationalising Property Theory”
International Asociation of Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) 2016 (International). Ward, J., “Fracking with our Property”
Institute for Social Policy and Enterprise Research (iSPER), Conference 2017, Channing, I., and Ward, J., “Homophobia, Brexit and Constitutional Change”
Browning & Anor v Jack & Anor [2021] UKUT 307 (LC)
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