Elizabeth Fitzgerald

Education

St. Edwards College, Liverpool. Boraston Scholar
Kings College, London. LLB (Hons) - First Class.

Professional

Elected as Governing Bencher of Inner Temple
Inns of Court School of Law - Very Competent
Inner Temple BVC Scholarship
Represented the Inner Temple at Princeton University Debating Competition 2001
Member of the Chancery Bar Association, the Property Bar Association and the London Commercial Law and Commercial Bar Association.

Recent Cases

Fearn v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2019] 2 WLR 1335. No actionable nuisance in th case of four flats that were overlooked by a public viewing gallery outside Tate Modern.
Zinc Cobham 1 Ltd v Adda Hotels [2018] EWHC 1025 (Ch). An appeal concerning a claim for specific performance of an obligation to carry out works under a lease.
Davis v Davis [2016] EWCA Civ 463
Davies v Davies [2014] EWCA Civ 568. A claim by a daughter for an interest in her parents’ farm based on proprietary estoppel. This case was concerned with the preliminary question of whether an equity existed.
Hammersmatch Properties (Welwyn) Ltd v Saint Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Ltd & Anor (No 2) [2013] EWHC 2227. This concerned the assessment of costs following a dilapidations trial where the Claimant had narrowly beaten the Defendant’s Part 36 offer and damages fell to be assessed after the Jackson reforms.
Hammersmatch Properties (Welwyn) Ltd v Saint Gobain Ceramics & plastics Ltd & Anor [2013] EWHC 1161. This was a high value terminal dilapidations claim concerning purpose built industrial and office premises built in the 1930s.
Norwich Union Life & Pensions v Linpac Mouldings Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 395; [2009] EWHC 1602. This case concerned the construction of a personal tenant’s break option; whether or not the reassignment of the lease to the original tenant could revive the personal option; the question of the reasonableness of the landlord’s refusal to consent to such an assignment.
Foxtons v Puri [2010] WECA Civ 925 (Estate Agents Commission)
Bocardo SA v (1) Star Energy UK Online Ltd (2) Star Energy Weald Basin Ltd [2008] 2 P&CR 23; [2009] 1 All ER; [2008] 30 EG 83. (Trespass by extracting oil by way of deviated drilling beneath the Al Fayed family estate pursuant to a licence granted under the Petroleum Act 1998. Whether an action in trespass could be maintained in respect of an interference at a substantial depth beneath the surface of the land. Damages for trespass and the relevance of the right to compulsory acquire ancillary rights under the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966. Limitation and deliberate concealment).
Coors Holdings Ltd v Dow Properties [2007] EWCA Civ 255. (Rent review. Whether a provision which required the annual rental value to be the value which "the site comprised in the demised premises might reasonably be expected to be let ..." required an assumption of vacant land and that the building erected on the land had not been erected.)
Crestfort Ltd (2) Hale Point Ltd (3) Yorkstream Properties Ltd v (1) Tesco Stores Ltd (2) Magspeed Ltd [2005] 3 EGLR 25; [2005] L&TR 20. (Whether there had been an unlawful underletting of a warehouse or whether the landlord was in breach of his obligations under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1988. Breach of a restrictive covenant contained in the lease and whether the commission of the tort of wrongful interference with a contract entitled the landlord to a mandatory injunction to surrender underlease.)
Dandara Holdings Ltd v (1) Co-Operative Retail Services Ltd (2) Co-Operative Group (CWS) Ltd [2004] 2 EGLR 163; [2004] EWHC 147. (Breach of an exclusivity agreement (or 'lock-out' agreement) by estate agent. The assessment of damages for breach. Whether damages could be claimed for the loss of a chance to purchase property on favourable terms.)

Publications

Co-Author of Commercial and Residential Service Charges (2013) Bloomsbury
Contributor to New Law Journal.

Called 2001