Max Thorowgood

Called 1995 (Lincoln's Inn)

MA (Hons) 1st Class, St Andrews
Robert T Jones Junior Memorial Fellow
Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry

Main Areas of Practice

Property
Inheritance and Probate
Insolvency
Commercial
Employment
Costs

Professional Memberships

ChBA
Property Bar Association
ELA

Profile

Max is a general Chancery practitioner specialising in property, probate, insolvency and commercial disputes. Other fields of expertise include employment, professional negligence and costs.

Max embraces the essential function of the advocate: to advance his client's case with the utmost discretion and resolution.

Property

Max sits as a Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry. He works for a wide range of clients in all areas of property related litigation including:

  • Real property
  • Land registration including proceedings before the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry
  • Rights of way and boundary disputes
  • Easements
  • Adverse possession
  • Restrictive covenants
  • TLATA claims
  • Property related professional negligence claims involving solicitors and surveyors
  • Landlord and Tenant (commercial and residential)
  • Leasehold enfranchisement and Right to Manage
  • Service charge disputes
  • Cases concerning Mobile Homes Act 1983
  • Matters relating to the Inclosure Acts

Max has appeared in the Court of Appeal, the High Court, County Courts, the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, the Upper Tribunal (Land Chamber) and the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal. 

Notable Cases

Gordon v Mitchell [2007] EWHC 1854 (Ch). - ( Gillett v Holt  estoppel)

Sleebush v Gordon - [2005] EWHC 3447 (Ch), [2004] All ER (D) 148 (Sep) Ch D. Proprietary estoppel

Meddick v Shiplake Parish Council - Claim to enforce the provisions of an award under Inclosure Act 1845

Bassett Road Housing Association v Gough CLY 1998 3653 - Right of beneficial joint tenant to seek relief from forfeiture

Inheritance and Probate 

Max's practice covers probate claims, Court of Protection as well as claims under Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.

Notable Cases

Plowright v Smith [2006] All ER (D) 234 (Jul). - Challenge to the validity of wills of which the principal beneficiary was a ‘professional will writer'.

Insolvency

Max specialises in corporate and personal insolvency and challenges to Trustees' costs and remuneration.

Notable Cases

Nicholls v Lan & Anor [2006] BPIR 1243, [2007] 1 FLR 744 - Appeal to the High Court concerning the requirement for the Court, in considering a Trustee's application for an order for sale, to have regard to the interests of the creditors specifically rather than generally.

James v Rutherford-Hodge [2006] BPIR 973 - Appeal to the Court of Appeal concerning a bankrupt's standing to seek an annulment of his bankruptcy in reliance upon the equity in his former matrimonial home. 

Commercial

Max regularly handles contractual disputes in all their common forms including partnership disputes, sale of goods, debt recovery, confidence injunctions, freezing injunctions and other applications for interlocutory relief.

Employment

Max's practice covers discrimination, unfair dismissal; executive termination and confidence injunctions.

Notable Cases

LB of Tower Hamlets v Wooster [2009] IRLR 980 - Age discrimination in dismissal for redundancy prior to the early retirement watershed.

Marshall v BCM EAT 0401/03 TM 22nd July 2003 - Appeal to the EAT concerning the chain of causation in claims for compensation for unfair dismissal.

Costs

Max often deals with claims by solicitors to recover their fees as well as claims by trustees in bankruptcy's claims for their costs.

Publications and seminars

‘The Impact of Barclays Bank v O'Brien, Estates Gazette 1997

If you would like any further information regarding Max Thorowgood's practice, please contact his clerks or call +44 (0)20 7405 6114.

  

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
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