Tricia Hemans

Tricia Hemans specialises in all areas of property law, including real property and both commercial and residential landlord and tenant law. Tricia has particular expertise in mortgage receivership disputes and is a co-author of Tozer, Crampin and Hemans on Mortgage Receivership: Law & Practice, 2nd Edn. 

Tricia is also experienced in complex co-ownership litigation and dispute resolution and is regularly instructed in relation to TLATA matters and property-related family law disputes. Tricia has appeared in the Family Court and has been led in the family division of the High Court. She has extensive experience as a mediation advocate.

Tricia acts in Telecoms Code cases and has appeared at all levels of the Court and Tribunal on behalf of Operators. She appeared, led by Oliver Radley-Gardner KC, in the first Supreme Court case to consider the provisions of the Telecoms Code and has recently presented oral arguments on behalf of an Operator in the Court of Appeal.

Tricia’s recent cases have involved:

Mortgage Law

• Acting in complex and high-value mortgage possession claims and receivership disputes on behalf of receivers, lenders and borrowers. Tricia recently acted for receivers in a case involving an extensive mixed-use property containing multiple residential and commercial occupants.

Land Registration

• Appearing multiple times in the High Court as junior counsel led by Stephanie Tozer KC, in relation to a high-value and complex land registration dispute concerning the mistaken discharge of over 5,000 legal charges: Barclays Bank UK Plc v Terry [2023] EWHC 3113 (Ch); [2023] EWHC 2726 (Ch).
• Yuen v Wong (2019) – a case involving a disputed transfer of property and the question of whether it is possible to witness a deed remotely.
• Being led in the Court of Appeal by Stephanie Tozer KC in Rashid v Nasrullah [2018] EWCA Civ 2685, an important case on adverse possession.

Telecoms Code

• Making oral submissions successfully in the Court of Appeal in On Tower UK Ltd v British Telecommunications Plc [2025] EWCA Civ 844, led by Stephanie Tozer KC.
• Appearing in the Upper Tribunal, led by Stephanie Tozer KC: On Tower UK Ltd v British Telecommunications Plc [2024] UKUT 51 (LC).
• Appearing in the Supreme Court, led by Oliver Radley-Gardner KC: Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited v (1) Ashloch Limited & (2) Ap Wireless II (UK) Limited [2022] UKSC 18.

Co-ownership Disputes

• Acting in a High Court co-ownership dispute involving multiple high-value properties and a complex claim for accounts and inquiries.
• Acting in a complex possession claim, involving the intersection of TLATA and the Family Court’s power to grant non-molestation orders and occupation orders restricting the right to possession.
• Being led in the Family Division of the High Court, in a dispute involving a divorce settlement with a property law dimension.

Building Safety Act / Enfranchisement

• Acting in a dispute concerning an application for a remediation order under the Building Safety Act 2022.
• Acting in disputes relating to lease extensions and collective enfranchisement claims under LRHUD Act 1993.

• Education

  BPTC: The University of Law - formerly the College of Law (Very Competent)

  LLB: Law, Queen Mary University of London (1st Class Hons)

• Memberships and Awards

  Tricia is a member of:

  • The Chancery Bar Association
  • The Property Bar Association 
  • The London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association
  • The Bar Council's Flexible Working Group
  • The Bar Council  2019-2020 - Equality, Diversity & Social Mobility Committee’s Retention Panel
  • Called 2013: Middle Temple Inn
  • Recognised as a 'Rising star' in the Legal 500 2021 UK Guide
  • Nicholas Pumfrey Memorial Award: Middle Temple
  • Access to the Bar Award: Middle Temple
  • Principal’s Prize for outstanding academic achievement: Queen Mary University of London
• Selected Cases
  • On Tower UK Ltd v British Telecommunications Plc [2025] EWCA Civ 844: Tricia appeared led in the Court of Appeal and successfully made oral submissions on behalf of BT. At [83] Lord Justice Holgate remarked that “Ms. Tricia Hemans on behalf of BT demonstrated clearly that ground 2 cannot succeed.” The case concerned the interaction between contractual break rights and termination rights pursuant to the Code.
  • STL Global Group Holdings Ltd v Mount Cook Land Ltd: [2025] 3 WLUK 541: Tricia acted for SGGHL in relation to a claim worth approximately 15 million pounds. She appeared for the successful Claimant in the High Court, led by Rajesh Pillai KC. The court refused to stay or strike out a claim that the transfer of a property from the first defendant to the second defendant constituted a transaction defrauding creditors under the Insolvency Act 1986 s.423.
  • Barclays Bank UK Plc v Terry [2023] EWHC 3113 (Ch); [2023] EWHC 2726 (Ch): Tricia appeared multiple times in the High Court as junior counsel led by Stephanie Tozer KC, in relation to a high-value and complex land registration dispute concerning the mistaken discharge of over 5,000 legal charges.
  • Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited v (1) Ashloch Limited & (2) Ap Wireless II (UK) Limited [2022] UKSC 18: Tricia appeared in the Supreme Court, led by Oliver Radley-Gardner, in the first Supreme Court case to consider the provisions of the Telecoms Code.
  • Hope Community Church (Wymondham) v Phelan and others (as Trustees of The Phelan Group Limited Retirement Benefits Scheme) [2020] EWHC 1240 (Ch): Tricia Hemans appeared led for the Defendant as the Court considered when the right to enfranchise can be exercised under the little encountered, Places of Worship (Enfranchisement) Act 1920. While there are some Upper Tribunal cases dealing with compensation, this is only the second reported case to address the question of when the right can be exercised. The High Court shed much-needed light on what is required under s.1 of the 1920 Act.
  • Rashid v Nasrullah [2018] EWCA Civ 2685: Tricia appeared in the Court of Appeal led by Stephanie Tozer in this important case on adverse possession. The court considered whether a person who had, by fraud, become the registered proprietor of land could successfully claim adverse possession of that land in the face of a challenge by the defrauded original proprietor.

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  Mediation Advocacy
  Tricia has been involved in numerous mediations as a mediation advocate. This has included legal issues concerning:

  • a substantial disrepair claim relating to a residential flat
  • the correct location of a boundary between two residential properties
  • negligence and nuisance resulting from an ingress of water on land which affected a neighbouring property
  • a claim for specific performance and damages including aggravated damages, resulting from an alleged failure by a landlord to carry out repairs.
• Publications & Seminars

  Child's Play? - NLJ 4 April 2025 with Daniel Black

  Co-author of Tozer, Crampin and Hemans on Mortgage Receivership: Law & Practice, 2nd Edn

  A practitioners’ guide to the intermediate track - NLJ 1 December 2023 with Daniel Black 

  Lockdown: A new lease of life - NLJ 11 September 2020 with Cecily Crampin

  Where are we now? Mortgage Receivership & Possession - NLJ 7 February 2020 with Cecily Crampin

  Contracts: The formal, informal, implied and naturally understood. March 2019, seminar (with Thomas Rothwell)

  On the Receiving end - NLJ 22nd March 2019 with Cecily Crampin

  Contributor to Mortgage Receivership: Law & Practice, 1st Edn, by Stephanie Tozer and Cecily Crampin

  Contributor to Westlaw Insight – Severability of Joint Tenancies and Holiday Lets 

  Enfranchisement Claims and Statutory Interpretation: Purpose and Prejudice? L. & T. Review 2017, 21(3), 95 – 102 (with Cecily Crampin) 

  To Build or Not To Build? Restrictive Covenants. April 2017 seminar (with Jamie Sutherland)

  Breaking Bad. February 2017, Solicitors Journal (with Greville Healey)

  “The Right to Manage – the basics”. February 2015 seminar (with Philip Sissons)

  No room at the inn. L. & T. Review 2015, 19(2), 47-51 (with Oliver Radley-Gardner)

  Article 8 defences to possession claims. I.H.L. 2014/15, 226 (Dec/Jan), 34-36 (with Toby Boncey).