Published comments

"Edward Peters acted in Bocardo SA v Star Energy, which involved the fundamental provisions of title to land. Market sources agree "He is easy-going and responsive, and a good team player on difficult cases". Chambers & Partners 2010.

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Edward Peters

Called 1998
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Areas of practice All aspects of commercial, residential and agricultural landlord and tenant and real property law, and related areas.

Education

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: BA in History(1996). (Double First; Senior Scholarship). MA (2000).

City University: Diploma in Law, with Distinction (2nd in year).

Professional

Called 1998, Middle Temple (Astbury Scholarship).

Inns of Court School of Law.

Winning pair, Middle Temple Mooting Competition 1998.

Worshipful Company of Arbitrators Prize.

Member of the Chancery Bar Association, the Property Bar Association, the Agricultural Law Association, and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association.

Recent Cases

Shaw v Doleman (CA) [2009] 2 BCLC 123, [2009] BCC 730, [2009] 2 EGLR 35, [2009] L & TR 27 (whether guarantor under AGA released upon disclaimer of lease).

Bocardo SA v Star Energy UK Onshore Ltd (CA) [2010] Ch 100, [2009] 3 WLR 1010, [2010] 1 All ER 26 ; (Peter Smith J.) [2009] 1 All ER 517, [2008] 2 P&CR 23 (damages for trespass for extraction of £10M of oil from oilfield from under Al Fayed family estate; limitation and deliberate concealment).

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Publications

Editor of Woodfall’s Law of Landlord and Tenant (Sweet & Maxwell).

Contributor to Fisher & Lightwood's Law of Mortgage, (Butterworths): Twelfth Edition (2006), and Supplement (2008); Eleventh edition (2002), and Supplement (2003).

Co-author of "Commonhold" (OUP) 2004.

Reporter for Property, Planning & Compensation Reports.