CONTACT

13-14 Old Square

Reception at 14 Old Square
Lincoln’s Inn
London
WC2A 3UE
DX 52 London - Chancery Lane
T: +44 (0)20 7831 4445
F: +44 (0)20 7841 5825
E: clerks@13oldsquare.com

We are open between 8.30am
and 6.30pm Monday to Friday.

Outside of office hours please
call Justin Brown, Senior Clerk
on 0777 578 1995.

Sebastian Kokelaar

Year of call: 2004

Education: MA, MPhil (Jesus College, Cambridge)

Languages: Dutch, French, German and Italian

Email: sebastiankokelaar@13oldsquare.com

Areas of practice
Sebastian specialises in Chancery and commercial law, with a particular emphasis on disputes about land. His areas of practice include:

• All aspects of landlord and tenant law (commercial, agricultural, and residential)
• Easements and freehold covenants
• Boundary disputes and adverse possession claims
• Trusts of land and proprietary estoppel
• Unlawful interference with land (nuisance, trespass)
• Mortgages
• Land registration
• Disputes about contracts for the sale of land (or grant of an interest in it)
• Insolvency (particularly its impact on property rights and obligations)
• Professional negligence claims against solicitors, surveyors and estate agents.

He appears before a variety of tribunals including the High Court, County Courts and the Adjudicator to HM Land Registry, and has considerable experience of alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration.

Sebastian previously worked as an employed barrister in the highly regarded real estate disputes team at Mills & Reeve LLP where he worked on a number of reported cases including Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education v McQuillin and Anor (2009) 27 EG 90 (CS) (application under section 84(2) Law of Property Act  1925 for a declaration concerning the enforceability of a restrictive covenant) and Shirley v Crabtree [2007] 1 WLR 18 (appeal by way of case stated to the Administrative Court from the Agricultural Land Tribunal) .

In 2004 he was the judicial assistant to the Chancellor of the High Court for two terms.

Publications

• Into the breach, Solicitors Journal, 31 March 2006 (on the decision of the House of Lords in Avonridge Property Co Ltd v Mashru)
• A duty to mitigate?, Property Law Journal, No. 182 5 February 2007 (on the decision of the Court of Appeal in Reichman & anr v Gauntlett & anr)
• Damages versus injunction, Construction Law, Vol. 18 Issue 2 March 2007
• Assessing damages in lieu of an injunction, Construction Law, Vol. 18 Issue 3 April 2007
• Damage limitation, New Law Journal, 20 April 2007
• Parking Restrictions, Estates Gazette, 8 April 2008 (on easements of parking)
• One way or another, Property Law Journal, No. 229 27 April 2009 (on enforcing contracts for the sale of land)
• Salvaging the landlord’s position, Credit Today, Insolvency & Recue supplement, February 2010 (on recovery of rent in administration)

Memberships: Property Bar Association, Agricultural Law Association