Published comments

“Gary Cowen won backing as “a diligent barrister who is comfortable with numbers”. Cowen acted for Sava v SS Global, a case concerning adverse possession”. Chambers and Partners 2010.

“Gary Cowen “never leaves a stone unturned” in his work”. Legal 500 2009

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Gary Cowen

Called 1990
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Gary Cowen's recent appearances in the Court of Appeal include a second appeal in an adverse possession claim and a claim for derogation of grant involving allowing plants to grow over a visibility splay at the end of a right of way. In the Chancery Division, Gary succeeded in persuading the Court that the true construction of a restrictive covenant prevented the owner of a landscaping strip from building a cycle track through it. Gary has also been advising in complex litigation concerning the validity of legal charges where the corporate mortgagor alleged that it had entered into the charges as a result of the undue influence of a third party. He has also continued to take on leasehold enfranchisement work including two appearances in the Lands Tribunal relating to deferment yield rates and the valuation of mooring rights in the LVT.

Education

University of Bristol LLB (1989)

Professional

Called 1990, Inner Temple.

Member of the Inner Temple Estates Committee

Former member, Bar Council Professional Complaints Committee

Deputy Adjudicator to HM Land Registry

Recent Cases

Carter v Cole [2009] EWCA Civ 410 (Derogation from grant relating to visibility splay at end of a right of way)

Country Estates Construction v Oxfordshire CC [2009] EWHC 642 (Ch) (True construction of restrictive covenant relating to landscaping strip)

Sava v SS Global [2008] EWCA Civ 1308 (Adverse possession, whether acts of possession of paper title owner sufficient to negative possession of squatter)

Fairacres v Abdul Mohamed [2008] EWCA Civ 1637 (Procedure; whether Court correct to uphold unless order)

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Publications

Contributor to Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant CD-ROM.

Contributing editor of Property section of Bullen & Leake & Jacob Precedents of Pleadings (14th ed.) (2001).

Commonhold, Law and Practice 2005 The Law Society