Commercial
Kate is also experienced in litigation involving commercial matters such as contractual disputes, business rate liability and insolvency, and regularly provides advice and advocacy in these particular aspects of business law. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Exeter University where she taught the key LLB subject areas of Land Law, Law of Torts, Commercial Law and English Legal System.
Property & Chancery
Kate’s practice is predominantly in the field of property law, with an emphasis on traditional chancery matters especially landlord and tenant, trusts, probate, Inheritance Act claims and TOLATA. She has a particular interest in problems relating to land registration, public and private rights of way, boundary disputes and adverse possession as well as riparian rights and land drainage issues.
Kate has appeared in the Court of Appeal in the case of Shaw v. Grouby [2017] ECWA Civ 233, an appeal over a boundary and right of access dispute which has subsequently attracted interest on the issue of excessive judicial intervention. Although the appeal was not successful, the Court specifically reserved its decision on the part that Kate argued regarding remedies for trespass to land (on the interaction between Harrow v. Donohue and Lawrence v. Fen Tigers).
Qualifications
- Fellowship, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Accredited Mediation Training, London School of Mediation
- Bar Professional Training Course. Very Competent. BPP, London
- LLB. 1st Class. University of Exeter (Awarded a Dean’s Commendation, the Stones Prize and the Paul Heim Prize).
- PhD in English Language and Linguistics. University of Surrey (Roehampton).
- MA in English. King’s College, London
- BA in English Language and Literature. 1st Class. King’s College, London
Mediation and ADR
- Kate is an Accredited Mediator and a Trustee of the Society of Mediators.
- She specialises in civil and commercial mediation
- She also provides accredited mediation training and has delivered courses for students at King’s College London.
Publications
- ‘The Will of the People’ (2017) New Law Journal. 167 (7750) 19-20 (with Charles Auld)
- ‘All Racecourse, No Recourse’ (2018) New Law Journal. 168 (7779) 8 (with Charles Auld)
- ‘What is Money? Legal Language as Modern Day Alchemy’ in Mooney and Sifaki (eds) The Language of Money and Debt (2017) Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 283-309.
- ‘A Make-Believe World’ New Law Journal (2016) 166 (7692), 15-16. (with Charles Auld)
- ‘The New Land Registration Tribunal: Neither Fish nor Fowl?’ The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (2016) 80, Issue 1: 19-27. (with Charles Auld)
- ‘Part-time pupillage – making it work’ Counsel (2015) Dec issue, 25-6. (with Dianne Martin)
- ‘A Family Law Toolkit: Language in the Child Protection System’ Seen and Heard (2015) 25(3) 50-1.
- ‘Adjudication in a New Landscape’ King’s Law Journal (2013) 24: 316-42.
- Gender and Language Research Methodologies (2008) with Lia Litosseliti, Helen Sauntson and Jane Sunderland. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- ‘Perpetuating difference? Corpus linguistics and the Gendering of Reported Dialogue’ (2008) In Harrington, Litosseliti, Sauntson and Sunderland (eds.) Gender and Language Research Methodologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 85-102
Conference Presentations
- ‘What is Money? Law and Linguistic usage in a commercial setting’ The Language of Money and Debt: the view from the ground. BAAL/Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme at Roehampton University (September 2015)
- ‘The Significance of Language in Achieving Best Evidence’ Is the Child Protection System Fit for Purpose? Multi-disciplinary conference hosted by The Transparency Project, London (June 2015)
- ‘Linguistics and the Law: New Perspectives on Legal Language’ Ist Interdisciplinary Conference in Linguistics at University of Georgia, Athens, USA (October 2014)
- ‘Domestic Violence and the Myth of the ‘Powerful’ Victim: the Discourses of Rights and Accountability as Legal Reality’ Language and Law in Social Practice (3rd International Conference) at University of Naples, Italy (May 2014)
Professional Memberships
- Society of Mediators (Trustee)
- Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn
- Higher Education Academy (Fellow)
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