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Based in Mayfair, central London, Forsters’s clients are principally drawn from the real estate and private wealth sectors.
The firm’s property litigation team won a victory in the Supreme Court in an nuisance claim for the owners of luxury flats in the Neo Bankside, a residential development opposite a viewing platform on the tenth floor of the Tate Modern’s Blavatnik extension.
The Tate’s platform attracted hundreds of thousands of members of the public each year and visitors regularly looked into the leaseholders’ apartments with binoculars and cameras and posted pictures on social media.
Almost six years after the case started, in a 168-page judgment the Supreme Court ruled by a majority that the owners face a faced a “constant visual intrusion” that interfered with the “ordinary use and enjoyment” of their properties, which constituted an unacceptable level of intrusion and extended the law of privacy to include overlooking.
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A cross-departmental team at the firm have been reappointed as legal advisers to Notting Hill Genesis for another four years to advise the housing association on building safety, developments, joint ventures, commercial sales lettings management and residential conveyancing among other things.
The firm’s property litigation team successfully acted for the Ministry of Defence against Annington Homes in landmark enfranchisement litigation concerning military service family accommodation.
In one of Europe’s largest regeneration projects, the firm advised its long-term client Knight Dragon on the £8.4 billion development of the 150-acre site at Greenwich Peninsula, which will provide more than 17,000 homes, retail and commercial space, schools, and other community facilities.
★ Commended for commercial property; construction; family; inheritance & succession; landlord & tenant; tax
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